New perspectives on how history is made
The worst memories of the Vietnam War are fading. Even in Vietnam. This may be a very good thing, indeed.
The hidden history we don’t know what to do with.
It’s a victory story, but a little more complicated than people think.
When DuBois visited China and other forgotten history from the Cold War.
In memory of Esther Terner Raab, 1922-2015.
When it comes to the Vatican Bank, a dose of law and order seems long overdue.
Historians have one definition of microhistory. Readers often have another.
It was obvious to our embassy that disaster loomed.
In interview after interview, Kennedy has promulgated her movie’s myth: “The U.S. decided we’ve just got to get the Americans out and leave all our Vietnamese counterparts behind.” That was Nixon's stated view. It's wrong.
As in 1915, the American government still struggles to balance moral leadership with political pragmatism.
His name has been dropped from the textbook he wrote.
In his debut novel, Richards discusses looks back at America in the early 1970s.
A Vermont school teacher visits the Mississippi Delta and comes away floored.
We owe a lot to the young men who wielded bugles, fifes and drums, as well to those who fired weapons and charged the ramparts.
As a presidential candidate Barack Obama spoke plainly about the Armenian genocide. Why doesn’t he as president?
One of the people a Confederate general had to say good-bye to at the end of the Civil War was his slave.
The Chinese paid the price for American heroism.
Both Lincoln and his assassin misread the lessons of history.
Eyewitnesses put him in DC and Elmira, NY the day of the assassination.
It was an operation over the Netherlands near the end of World War II. It was not bombs they were dropping — it was food.
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