New perspectives on how history is made
There’s even a group that hopes to remember “the lost cause.”
History suggests that the whiteness of the national parks has little to do with visitors and almost everything to do with the parks themselves.
Even in summers of divisiveness that have escalated to disheartening hostility and violence, the parks reflect America’s ideal of inclusivity.
The fascinating story of what happened after Charles I was executed.
The moral question at the heart of a new movie about the assassination of SS General Reinhard Heydrich.
The story of the bad reign of the Spanish Empire’s Felipe II and the unintended consequences of his harsh and unwise rule.
“Rarely in the history of the United States has the nation been so ill-served as during the presidency of George W. Bush.”
Blumenthal dispels the notion of a Lincoln too noble for politics in the first volume of his planned four-volume work on the sixteenth president.
His name is Derek Boyd Hankerson. He’s an African American who makes controversial claims about the Civil War.
If we have the imagination to borrow an approach from 250 years ago, we might be better able to understand climate change.
His name was Ashraf Marwan and he changed the course of history.
“He was both more philosophical and sadder than I expected.”
By examining what he did in the Congo we can make an educated guess.
How this remarkable development took place is explained in a new book by Aaron Shkuda. (Interview.)
It happened just 5.6 miles from where Donald Trump will accept the Republican Party’s nomination for president.
9 cowboys. 1,000 miles. And cries that the race was so hard on the horses the riders should be locked up.
How can this one man be a hero to both liberals and conservatives? He’s complicated – like America.
Yup. It’s the 3rd time.
A reply to Jeremy Best’s critique of Edwin Black’s “Before Germans Slaughtered Jews They Slaughtered Africans,” which was featured on HNN two months ago.
A critique of Edwin Black’s article, “Before Germans Slaughtered Jews They Slaughtered Africans.”
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