100 Years Ago—A Chaotic Presidential Election
How Roosevelt's challenge to Taft split the Republican party and ensured victory for underdog Wilson.... More
About: Jeff Nilsson
Jeff Nilsson is the director of Post archives and a website editor. He is a specialist in American History, with graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin, University of New Mexico, and Eastern Michigan University. He writes our website's weekly Retrospective feature, and is directing the program of digitally converting the magazine's 190 years of issues.
Posts by Jeff Nilsson:
Teddy Roosevelt And World War I: An Alternative History
Jeff Nilsson reconsiders the events of the election of 1912 and answers the question "What if the U.S. re-elected Roosevelt?" ... More
Famous Contributors: John le Carré
In 51 years as a writer, John le Carré has published just four short stories. Two of them were in The Saturday Evening Post.... More
Do You Really Want To Live To 100?
A Post article from 1959 suggests they found a formula for long life that you may not want to repeat.... More
Blow-by-Blow Reporting on the Cuban Missile Crisis
Would Kennedy stand up to Khrushchev's aggression?... More
Nuclear Showdown: The Cuban Missile Crisis 50 Years Later
How would the Russians respond to President Kennedy's ultimatum? Would they recall the ships carrying missiles to Cuba? Or would they start a nuclear war?... More
Alex Karras: Football Hero, Post Contributor
In 1971, Alex Karras told Post readers the REAL reason he went out for football.... More
Book Review: The Great American Railroad War
Dennis Drabelle’s book recounts how two writers helped expose the corruption of the Central Pacific to the country.... More
Remembering Andy Williams: The 1962 Post Interview
"All I want out of life is to be comfortable," Andy Williams told the Post in this 1962 article. ... More
Mr. Lincoln Discusses His Proclamation
On September 22, 1862, Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, and the Post was there with a firsthand interview.... More
Campaign Gaffes
Romney's recent "47 percent" comment evokes memories of a disastrous gaffe made by Goldwater in an interview with the Post. ... More
Antietam: Our Post-Battle Report
September 17 marks the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest single-day battle in American history.... More
Gun Cranks and the Spirit of Innovation
When you come down to the basics, "gun nuts" aren't much different from "computer geeks."... More
Why Do Men Dress That Way? 1930s version.
Men's fashion hasn't seen drastic changes over the past 200 years, but gone are the days when movies introduced men to elegant dinner jackets, stylish... More
The Decline of Old-Time Religion
The changing nature of the American people was clearly reflected in their changing attitude toward religion, said this 1906 author.... More
What True Grassroots Campaigns Looked Like
The way we choose our president has changed over the years. A 1903 Post article spells out dramatic shifts in voting laws from a different... More
The Long Tradition of the Smear Campaign
We had a respectable election once, and the winner was George Washington. In a 1976 article, Jack Anderson pointed out that when the next election... More
