This unprecedented year has inspired great innovation. But the idea of hosting a virtual debate isn't one of them. Bringing people together remotely and televising it is not anything new, including in ...

On Oct. 21, 1960, American viewers were riveted to their television sets for the broadcast of the fourth and final debate between Republican Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Democratic Senator John ...

Iconic photos featuring three presidents whose items are often treated as collectibles are quietly being auctioned in a “private treaty offer” timed for the election. One photo shows the Sept. 26, ...

Democrat John F. Kennedy and Republican Richard Nixon faced off before a national TV audience in the first-ever debate between presidential nominees. Many folks who listened to the debate on the radio ...

On the night of September 26, 1960, America sat before its televisions in anticipation of something entirely new. It was the first televised presidential debate in U.S. history, and the ...

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This week marks the jubilee of the Kennedy-Nixon debates. It was on September 26, 1960, that the two future presidents took the stage in the first of their four rounds. It struck us, as we watched ...

Meacham, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and professor at Vanderbilt University, is the author of the new book And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle Even Richard Nixon‘s ...