Roundup

When You Think of Memorial Day, Do You Think of Just Men?

by Kara Dixon Vuic

Women no longer have to fight to serve, but we all need to remember the costs of their service.

Lost in the Past

by Timothy Egan

Ask a high school senior what the Great War was all about and you’re likely to get a shrug or a stab based on a recent episode of “Game of Thrones.”

And now, for another view of Hitler

by Corey Robin

In 2010, Ukraine’s government officially recognized Bandera as a national hero, a move that was condemned by the European Parliament among others.

Is Climate Change a Crime Against Humanity?

by Tom Engelhardt

If we think of climate change as a weapon of mass destruction, shouldn’t we do something about it?

Consequences of the Truman Doctrine

by Christopher McKnight Nichols

While transformative, the precise significance of Truman’s speech is a subject of debate.

Everybody’s trying to use WW 2 history to their advantage these days

by Eri Hotta

“The Germans... don’t like China constantly comparing them with Japan and going on about the war.”

How Memory Speaks

by Jerome Groopman

The role of memory in virtually every activity of our day is put in sharp focus when it is lost.

Scalia v. Scalia

by Dahlia Lithwick

Does his faith influence his judicial decision making?

Putting Ukraine in Its Place

by Peter Beinart

From the current debates you’d never know what matters more: Russia’s land grab, Iran’s nuclear program, or China’s territorial claims. How America stopped thinking strategically.

Inside the Battle for Fair Housing in 1960s Chicago (Video)

The video of the week. 

Encountering History on Sacred Ground

by Alice Greenwald

"In telling our story, our charge was to provide a sense of historical context."

When the McCarthyites tried to Ban “Robin Hood” as a Communist; and the Green Feather Movement

by Alison Kysia

Mrs. Thomas J. White of the Indiana Textbook Commission called for a ban of Robin Hood in all school books for promoting communism because he stole from the rich to give to the poor.

The Case for Reparations

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

In Defense of Student Commencement Protests

by Leonard Steinhorn

Has America entered a Bizarro world in which money equals speech but speech itself gets labeled intimidation?

Ukraine's Neo-con Champions Champion Mainly Themselves

by Jim Sleeper

"But enough about me. Let's talk about what you think about me."

Has Rising Inequality Brought Us Back to the 1920s? It Depends on How We Measure Income

by Gary Burtless

Though most experts on income measurement are aware of the shortcomings of the standard income measures, it is surprising how little of this knowledge has seeped into popular discussion of inequality.

Chilling Holocaust ignorance among our youth

by Michael Gerson

According to a recent global survey by the Anti-Defamation League, two-thirds of respondents either had never heard of the Holocaust or believed historical accounts were exaggerated.

World War II Led to a Revolution in Cartography. These Amazing Maps Are Its Legacy.

by Susan Schulten

More Americans came into contact with maps during World War II than in any previous moment in American history.

Time to get serious about the weather

by Jonathan Zimmerman

The weather has gotten serious, and weather reporters should follow suit.

Who Owns Richard Nixon?

by Jeffrey Frank

At the Nixon Library the long war of ideological office politics goes on.