Historians/History

The Untold Story of How the Reagan Administration Got Rid of Pinochet, Chile’s Ruthless Dictator

by Morris Morley and Chris McGillion

It’s a victory story, but a little more complicated than people think.

Thomas A. Bailey: Dead and Forgotten by His Publisher?

by Ray Raphael

His name has been dropped from the textbook he wrote.

There Is One More Thing We Need to Remember About the Civil War

by Timothy Walch

We owe a lot to the young men who wielded bugles, fifes and drums, as well to those who fired weapons and charged the ramparts.

A Confederate General and His Slave

by Kevin M. Levin

One of the people a Confederate general had to say good-bye to at the end of the Civil War was his slave.

Secret Warriors of the First World War

by Taylor Downing

The First World War was not just a war of trenches, slaughter and sacrifice. It changed the scientific and technological landscape of the century to follow.

Rory Kennedy's Vietnam Documentary Says the US Congress Abandoned Our Vietnamese Allies at War's End. Don't Believe It.

by Ken Hughes

In interview after interview, Kennedy has promulgated her movie’s myth: “The U.S. decided we’ve just got to get the Americans out and leave all our Vietnamese counterparts behind.” That was Nixon's stated view.  It's wrong.

America and the Armenian Genocide

by Steven Cromack

As in 1915, the American government still struggles to balance moral leadership with political pragmatism.

Two Things You Don’t Know About Roe v. Wade that Will Surprise You

by James D. Robenalt

One of these two things changed American politics and not in a good way.

The Inconvenience of Genocide

by Rafael Medoff

As a presidential candidate Barack Obama spoke plainly about the Armenian genocide. Why doesn’t he as president?

Capturing History as it Really Happened in October 1962 (Part 1)

by Sheldon M. Stern

The first in a series of articles about what we know now about the Cuban Missile Crisis that we didn’t know until recently.

The United States Isn’t the Only Country Still Trying to Figure Out the Vietnam War

by Tuong Vu

So is Vietnam.

How Diamonds Destroyed a People

by Stan Winer

The horrible human tragedy and deceit on which the fortune of Cecil Rhodes rests.

Once a Liberal Icon, Jefferson’s Now Claimed by Both Left and Right

by Andrew Burstein

How can that be? People believe what they want to believe.

It’s Time We Face the Fact that Ronald Reagan Was Hostile to Civil Rights

by Doug Rossinow

Reagan rode the white backlash—along with other major issues, to be sure—farther than anyone else ever did in American history, before or since.

Nancy Pearl’s Love Affair with History: An Interview

by Robin Lindley

America’s most beloved reading advocate on the allure of the past.

What We Know Now About the Birth of Israel Thanks to the Opening of British MI5 Archives

by Bruce Hoffman

An interview with Bruce Hoffman, author of “Anonymous Soldiers” (Knopf).

The Horrific Unintended Consequence of Doolittle’s Courageous Raid on Tokyo

by James M. Scott

The Chinese paid the price for American heroism.

Lincoln’s Assassination – and Caesar’s

by Barry Strauss

Both Lincoln and his assassin misread the lessons of history.

John Surratt: The Man in Two Places at Once

by Michael Schein

Eyewitnesses put him in DC and Elmira, NY the day of the assassination.

The Israeli Historians People Talk About

by Alexander S. Collie

Who they are and what they believe.