Roundup

Ending 50 Years of Silence About Mississippi's Freedom Summer

by Ellen Ann Fentress

For decades, black and white residents struggled to discuss the murders of three young civil-rights workers on June 21, 1964.

America’s Middle East Dilemma

by Victor Davis Hanson

Americans have a choice. 

Who Won Iraq?

by Tom Engelhardt

Lost Dreams, Lost Armies, Jihadi States, and the Arc of Instability.

Africans Have Apologized for Slavery, So Why Won’t the US?

by Theodore R. Johnson III

A majority of Americans do not support reparations, or even an apology, for the centuries of brutal enslavement endured by blacks.

A cautious Obama misreads history

by Ruth Marcus

Two instincts — one predictable, the other surprising — help explain the arc of Barack Obama’s presidency.

The Seismic Shifts Behind the Coup in Thailand

by Grant Evans

Thailand has been in crisis since an armed forces coup overthrew Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in September 2006, ultimately forcing him into exile.

George W. Bush’s horrific, deadly blunder: Would Saddam Hussein be better than Iraq’s new hell?

by Patrick L. Smith

Eleven years, and so much death, misery and destruction later, Iraq's best outcome looks like the one Bush upended.

Allende, the Third World, and Neoliberal Imperialism

by Chris Dietrich

So what was the American role in Allende’s overthrow?

‘My dear parents, I have been sentenced to death...’ A World War I tragedy

by Tony Paterson

A History of the First World War in 100 Moments.

Deconstructing The Iraq And Syria Conflicts

by Dr. Alon Ben-Meir

The current escalating sectarian violence between the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and Iraqi forces and the unending civil war in Syria are now intertwined and neither can be resolved without the other, which requires a dramatic change in the political and military landscape in Syria and Iraq.

Interactive Time-Lapse Map Shows How the U.S. Took More Than 1.5 Billion Acres From Native Americans

by Rebecca Onion and Claudio Saunt

This interactive map, produced by University of Georgia historian Claudio Saunt to accompany his new book West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776, offers a time-lapse vision of the transfer of Indian land between 1776 and 1887.

Don’t Trust the Bombers on Iraq: “Shock and Awe” Never Works

by Juan Cole

Shock and awe failed to awe the Iraqis, and all those years of air strikes on Mosul did not subdue it.

Turkish Support for ISIS

by Daniel Pipes

The Turks offered far more than an easy border crossing: they provided the bulk of ISIS' funds, logistics, training and arms.

How to Forgive Your Torturer

by Ariel Dorfman

The River Kwai Passes Through Latin America and Washington.

Baseball’s Cooperstown Myth

by Christopher Klein

In reality the shrine to baseball’s gods was built on top of an elaborate creation myth.

What in God's Name Is Going on in Iraq? An Expert Explains.

by Isaac Chotiner

An interview with Olivier Roy.  

What the gospel of innovation gets wrong

by Jill Lepore

The Disruption Machine

The shocking story of the racist George Wallace speechwriter who penned a fake autobiography of an endearing Cherokee orphan (Audio)

How George Wallace's speechwriter became the secret author of a popular and bogus Indian memoir.

Who Really Were the First Americans?

by Steve Moyer

The reigning theory on who the first Homo sapiens in North America were has been powerfully challenged by, among others, Meadowcroft, an archaeological dig in western Pennsylvania that began in the 1970s.

7 Myths about the Radical Sunni Advance in Iraq

by Juan Cole

Already in the past week and a half, many assertions are becoming commonplace in the inside-the-Beltway echo chamber about Iraq’s current crisis that are poorly grounded in knowledge of the country.