Roundup

The GOP's Resilience Is Time-Tested

by Nancy C. Unger

Some Republicans hope that the nomination can be wrested from Trump at the convention, a ploy that failed for Roosevelt supporters in 1912.

The Way We Never Were

by Stephanie Coontz

For much of the century, traditional "family values" have been more myth than reality.

The Double Standard on Terrorism Justifications

by Jonathan Zimmerman

Why do we go out of our way to explain the causes of Islamist terrorism and never do the same for white right-wing domestic terrorism?

America’s First Minister of Propaganda

by Gil Troy

George Creel was so talented, he got Americans to support a war they had just voted against.

Trump and the Problem of History

by Ian P. Beacock

The past warns us that systems work until they don’t. Watching Trump prepare to seize the Republican nomination, it’s easy to surrender to a kind of civic paralysis that’s equal parts horror and glee.

Will Obama Be Ranked Among America’s Greatest Presidents?

by Steven M. Gillon

As Barack Obama enters the final months of his presidency, historians, journalists and self-appointed pundits will participate in the ritual of ranking him on the scale presidential greatness.

Video of the Week: North Korea propaganda video depicts Washington, D.C., nuclear attack

by Daniel Uria

The video features a history of "humiliating defeats" suffered by the United States in the history of its relations with North Korea followed by an image of a submarine-launched nuclear missile striking the Capitol building in Washington.

The Man Who Turned Hitler Into Hitler

by Robert K. Wittman and David Kinney

In this prologue to the mesmerizing The Devil’s Diary, we meet Alfred Rosenberg, the evil mastermind who more than anyone shaped Hitler’s thinking.

How Donald’s Dad Fred Trump Tried to Kill Coney Island

by Michael Daly

When The Donald’s dad destroyed a Coney Island landmark with big plans for a development, he expected the Brooklyn Democratic machine to smooth the way.

Weimar America?

by Eric D. Weitz

Forget Trump. It's the people who paved the way for him who seem uncomfortably familiar to an expert on pre-Nazi Germany.

Have We Ever Had a President Like Donald Trump?

by Joshua Kendall

Yes, we have—but you have to go back to the nineteenth century.

Start Making Sense: Bernie Is Bringing the Reagan Era to an End (Podcast)

by Jon Wiener

Bernie Sanders is the leading edge of the historical forces bringing the 40-year Reagan era to an end, says Richard Parker of Harvard’s Kennedy School.

America's Original Lone-Wolf Terrorist

by Greg Bailey

In the space of a few days, he passed from deranged nut to lone-wolf terrorist and possible conspirator in the public’s mind.

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Counter-Terrorism Beyond Platitudes

by Max Boot

Why we can’t just go in and defeat our enemies today like we did in World War 2.

Story of the Week: Wall Street's First Black Millionaire

by Elizabeth Elliott

Jeremiah Hamilton’s impressive and unlikely rise to infamy captured the attention of Australian Shane White, a professor of US history at the University of Sydney.

Why It Took More Than 50 Years for U.S.–Cuba Relations to Thaw

by Fred Kaplan

Fidel charmed Americans in a 1959 visit, but U.S.­–Cuba relations were always doomed.

The Zionists Censor a Textbook - An Analysis

by Lawrence Davidson

Why did McGraw-Hill cave?