New perspectives on how history is made
There is a wide gap between the way historians view JFK and how the public perceives him. Why?
An attempt to eliminate the debt in the 1830s ended in disaster. Here's why we need the debt.
A veteran historian's advice.
Had JFK lived, could he have beaten second-termitis?
Why do people still tell the "true" story of George Bateson, the supposed inventor of the belfry coffin?
MIT's Craig Wilder on the role slavery played in the founding and rise of the Ivy League.
JFK didn't just write "Profiles in Courage" -- he also chaired a special committee to determine the best senators in American history.
The next time someone complains Barack Obama is acting unconstitutionally, remember, that's how George Washington gave the office of president its powers.
Like the Luddites, the Tea Party is raging against inevitable change.
The esteemed political commentator and popular historian talks about America's history of migration.
Solomon Northup wasn't the only black man in New York to face abduction from slave catchers.
Along with "Roots" and "Sankofa," the new Steve McQueen movie presents the most striking images of slave women put to celluloid.
By the early '60s, Giap had already been supplanted by Le Duan and Le Duc Tho.
Why the Kennedy assassination continues to captivate America.
The Greatest Generation still has a great deal of symbolic political power.
Vietnam became an American killing field and a breeding ground for atrocity.
Columbus may have left a contentious legacy, but there's no denying his voyages expanded the boundaries of European knowledge.
Neither the United States nor the United Nations had clean hands in Somalia.
Economic historians explain why a debt ceiling default would be a very, very bad thing.
How the paranoid style in American politics has shut down the government.
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