New perspectives on how history is made
It was built by thousands of newly-freed slaves, hundreds of whom died in the process.
In her latest book, "Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form," she studies graphic visual narratives.
It’s their complicity that allowed evil to flourish.
They may well be the first markers featuring the words: United States. This is one's man's story to assure they're not forgotten.
The 23-minute speech that has drawn wide attention.
"The problem we may have with President Trump is that he does not know what he does not know."
This is the backstory.
It happened in World War I, when the U.S. sent 14,000 troops to Russia to resist Bolshevism.
It’s not just Southerners who have to face hard truths.
Getting a fact wrong. Mea culpa.
And what can we do about that?
The lesson we need to learn for 2017.
And still, even there, Japan cannot fully come to terms with the war.
R-Day (this stands for redeployment and readjustment) was the day in 1945 when GIs in Europe and the Pacific Theater learned if they had accumulated enough points to be sent home.
A roundtable by the authors of 2 new books about FDR.
The complicated history of this venerable public hospital from its humble 18th century beginnings through the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy.
His views echo the line (now rejected by most scholars) taken by historians after World War I.
Historian David Blight: "You can be too ignorant to know you're ignorant."
It’s the diary of Alfred Rosenberg, one of Hitler’s closest and most loyal aides.
Two writers doing a book about the photographs couldn’t help but think about events today.
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