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Even in Fascism’s Heyday, Anti-Fascists on Campus Were Controversial

In the 1930s students protested an appearance of Mussolini.  (The college president was burned in effigy.)

Hitler refused to use sarin during WWII. The mystery is why.

Over the years, historians (armchair and scholarly) and psychologists have speculated that maybe Hitler didn’t use sarin because he was a victim of a mustard gas attack in 1918, during World War I, and knew the misery of such weapons.

Woman Sees Her 'Slave Cabin' Birthplace in African-American Museum

The two-room "slave cabin" in the African-American history museum was home to a family of 11.

The Assad Family: Nemesis of Nine U.S. Presidents

It took less than a hundred days for President Trump to discover that the Assad dynasty may be his nemesis, too.

Keynesian Economics Is Hot Again

Paul Krugman was right.

11 Years, $300 Million and 3 Convictions. Was the Khmer Rouge Tribunal Worth It?

It appears now that they could be the only people to answer in court for the deaths of at least 1.7 million Cambodians from 1975 to 1979 in one of the worst episodes of mass killing in the last century.

Jamaica offers apology and reparations to Rastafarians

The government of Jamaica took responsibility for a single incident that blamed the island’s total Rastafarian population for the death of eight individuals in a farming community 10 miles east of the second city of Montego Bay 54 years ago.

Trump Press Secretary Sean Spicer: Even Hitler didn't use chemical weapons

Later in the briefing, Spicer walked back his remarks when a reporter challenged him to explain, saying Hitler didn’t use chemical weapons “in the same way” as Assad.

Did pictures in the news media just change U.S. policy in Syria?

This type of media-induced policy shift is not new, and past experiences may illuminate potential outcomes and dangers for today.

Newly declassified CIA materials reveal: Americans hardly knew any Israeli secrets

Some 1 million papers show what the U.S. knew, or didn't know, about Israeli leaders' health, IDF maneuvers and Moshe Dayan's celebrity status.

Columnist upset with attempts to ban library books that deny the Holocaust

by Jacob Furedi

Just last month, Google hired a team of 10,000 contractors to trawl through the internet and flag up incorrect accounts of the Holocaust.

Marine Le Pen sparks outrage over Holocaust comments

Le Pen suggested France was not responsible for the wartime round-up of Jews who were sent to Nazi death camps.

Here’s what historians told Congress are the difficult issues Donald Trump and Xi Jinping have to work out

by Dane Kennedy

Sponsored by the National History Center, the purpose of the briefing was to give historical context to current tensions between the United States and China, with a particular focus on Chinese aims and anxieties.

Yale takes note of its special role in World War I

At a ceremony historian Paul Kennedy noted that a grand total of roughly 9,500 Yale graduates and students served in the war, including in the Red Cross, YMCA, and other non-governmental bodies.

Bannon’s Views Can Be Traced to a Book That Warns, ‘Winter Is Coming’

The book, “The Fourth Turning,” a 1997 work by two amateur historians, Neil Howe and William Strauss, lays out a theory that American history unfurls in predictable, 80-year cycles of prosperity and catastrophe. And it foresees catastrophe right around the corner.

Archaeologists are now using satellite imagery to track sites in war-torn Middle East

It’s an initiative of ASOR Cultural Heritage – a collaborative effort to respond to the destruction of cultural heritage in Syria and northern Iraq.

Was Trump’s Syria Strike Illegal? Explaining Presidential War Powers

The strike raises two sets of legal issues.

Talk about Fake News!

In the run-up to WWII, British intelligence unleashed an astrologer on an unsuspecting American public to sway public opinion on the war. He was a persuasive fake.

A Revolutionary museum opens in Philadelphia

For the past 10 years, figuring out how to unfurl the drama of the American Revolution has been the task of R. Scott Stephenson. As vice president of exhibitions, collections and programming, he has examined 3,000 artifacts, many from the Valley Forge Historical Society.

Construction Work Reveals Russian Spy Room

Constructed during the sixteenth century by Ivan the Terrible’s mother, Elena Glinskaya, the room was designed specifically to allow the Russians to spy on an enemy by eavesdropping through a wall.