New perspectives on how history is made
They claimed his views on monetary policy evolved. A close study of the record shows he always wanted to use the dollar to undermine fascism.
The Jewish baseball player who left the field to fight Hitler.
They give him a lesson.
He was a player in the events that brought down Nixon, not just an observer. Here’s what he did.
It’s where the Communists and the West squared off.
American history needs to be rewritten to give credit to the Eisenhower administration.
Once every generation or so, history abruptly floors the accelerator and leaps off the road. Are we there?
The fascinating backstory by the acclaimed author of books on environmental history, memory, and Indian wars.
The shocking answer is World War I. It’s finally getting a memorial, but questions remain about how it's being remembered.
The role historians can play in rectifying the problem.
You can see this in the nascent military industrial complex in antebellum Pensacola, which helps explain why the city was a mecca for fugitive slaves.
Here's why we need to remember it (and remember that FDR himself thought he wouldn't win it).
Here’s what it was all about and why November should be remembered as a turning point.
The company should take a stand against legitimizing hate speech through inaction. That action should be come now, not later.
The Wilentz op ed that launched a thousand responses skated by another controversy. It shouldn‘t have.
Part 6 in Dr. Stern’s ongoing series on the Cuban Missile Crisis.
A biographer explains why his portrait breaks with the pack.
It’s his role in the sequence of events that led to North Korea’s acquisition of the bomb.
A lot of people claim they do. But do they?
A story from the time of Abe Lincoln that makes our current vim and vigor look almost pale by comparison.
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