New perspectives on how history is made
The role music played in the lives of the American soldiers.
She and George were married forty years. Her story deserves to be told. Now it has been.
Why it's important to remember Trumbo's fight for justice, especially now.
The role historians can play in rectifying the problem.
The story of the scholar who turned archival thief.
It was the years he spent as a war correspondent, when he saw war up close and was appalled by it.
The Cold War is part of his legacy. But then so was the Marshall Plan.
Here's why we need to remember it (and remember that FDR himself thought he wouldn't win it).
It’s our own work.
The company should take a stand against legitimizing hate speech through inaction. That action should be come now, not later.
They claimed his views on monetary policy evolved. A close study of the record shows he always wanted to use the dollar to undermine fascism.
Case in point: The Gospel of Judas’s Crucifixion
The Wilentz op ed that launched a thousand responses skated by another controversy. It shouldn‘t have.
Here’s what it was all about and why November should be remembered as a turning point.
It’s where the Communists and the West squared off.
American history needs to be rewritten to give credit to the Eisenhower administration.
You can see this in the nascent military industrial complex in antebellum Pensacola, which helps explain why the city was a mecca for fugitive slaves.
Once every generation or so, history abruptly floors the accelerator and leaps off the road. Are we there?
The fascinating backstory by the acclaimed author of books on environmental history, memory, and Indian wars.
The story neo-Confederates have been spreading in the weeks since the Charleston shooting that hundreds of thousands of blacks served in the Confederate army are fallacious.
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