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“The Dangers of a Fake Tubman Quote,” by Dr. W. Caleb McDaniel

by W. Caleb McDaniel

The trouble with the quote was that Tubman never said it.

Story of the Week: Wall Street's First Black Millionaire

by Elizabeth Elliott

Jeremiah Hamilton’s impressive and unlikely rise to infamy captured the attention of Australian Shane White, a professor of US history at the University of Sydney.

Counter-Terrorism Beyond Platitudes

by Max Boot

Why we can’t just go in and defeat our enemies today like we did in World War 2.

How Can Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders Both Be ‘Populist’?

by Michael Kazin

Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders share an upbringing in New York’s outer boroughs and a repugnance for trade deals, but the similarities pretty much end there.

The strange, short career of Judeo-Christianity

by Gene Zubovich

Defenders of Judeo-Christianity believe that they are invoking timeless principles. In fact, Judeo-Christianity is a very recent invention.

A Force Unto Itself

by William Astore

A Military Leviathan Has Emerged as America’s 51st and Most Powerful State

Will Obama Be Ranked Among America’s Greatest Presidents?

by Steven M. Gillon

As Barack Obama enters the final months of his presidency, historians, journalists and self-appointed pundits will participate in the ritual of ranking him on the scale presidential greatness.

Why It Took More Than 50 Years for U.S.–Cuba Relations to Thaw

by Fred Kaplan

Fidel charmed Americans in a 1959 visit, but U.S.­–Cuba relations were always doomed.

When Castro Came to Harlem

by Steven Cohen

The Cuban leader’s last visit to the U.S. before the 1961 diplomatic fallout can tell us a lot about our present historic moment.

No, Trump Won’t Be Another Hitler

by Adam Mala

For one thing, it is hard to envision how a man of almost 70 who spent his entire life working in the private sector could be a Hitler due to his age. History shows that becoming a despot is a young(ish) man’s game.  

How the Grand Canyon changed our ideas of natural beauty

by Stephen Pyne

Few sights are as instantly recognizable, and few sites speak more fully to American nationalism. Standing on the South Rim in 1903, President Teddy Roosevelt proclaimed it “one of the great sights every American should see.”

The Zionists Censor a Textbook - An Analysis

by Lawrence Davidson

Why did McGraw-Hill cave?

The Oilman Who Loved Dictators

by Adam Hochschild

Or How Texaco Supported Fascism

When Hillary Clinton Ran For President ... In 1992

by Sean Braswell

Long before ‘House of Cards,’ Hillary and Bill Clinton were test-driving a real-life co-presidency on the campaign trail.

Explainer: the long, complicated history of the US at Guantánamo Bay

by William Rowlandson

Whoever wins the presidency in November is doomed to inherit an ancient problem. Good luck to them.

Weimar America?

by Eric D. Weitz

Forget Trump. It's the people who paved the way for him who seem uncomfortably familiar to an expert on pre-Nazi Germany.

The Black Spies in a Confederate White House

by Christopher Dickey

How a secret intelligence network successfully spied on Confederate leader Jefferson Davis in his own home.

As Putin Zaps Lenin, Lavrov Hurriedly Rewrites History

by Alexei Sobchenko

History is malleable in Russia. There is hardly any other country in the world whose national history was so utterly and repeatedly rewritten during the last hundred years.