New perspectives on how history is made
"Imagining war is the curse of our violent world; we have no choice but to face that task with as much intelligence, compassion, and courage as we can."
This fall he'll be offering a course that no one could possible think is dull.
We should remember that most people in the peace movement objected to the provocative approach taken by demonstrators.
The PBS series on Vietnam may have made a big splash. But that doesn’t mean it’s the last word on the subject.
For one thing, it shows that during the Cold War the CIA often thought that MI6 adopted hare-brained schemes.
Case study: What happened in Gainesville, Florida in the 1970s.
On India’s Independence Day it’s worth examining.
Sneezers sought a “Pollenless Paradise.”
The film is well made, engrossing, and fundamentally wrong in key respects.
This Medievalist shows in her new book that Europeans in the Middle Ages used racial categories to distinguish outsiders from themselves.
"A recent book I don’t get tired of rereading and teaching is Kate Brown’s Plutopia."
It doesn’t deserve an award for its content.
It’s the story of America’s hidden role in the Soviet invasion of Manchuria.
“It seemed to me that Japan could contemplate the bombing with stoicism and dignity. The defeat, however, was too much.”
So Donald Trump wants to redesign the look of Air Force One?
They were correct.
Here’s one way to do it.
As this historian discovered, it helps to visit Brazil and see how slavery developed there.
“It is not easy to look at the future when your head is plunged into the past!”
100 years later we can see more clearly how the Romanov dynasty came to an end 100 years ago.
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