New perspectives on how history is made
These suggest that his near-great ranking among the American presidents should be a matter of debate.
They forgot to heed the lessons of the 19th century round of peace talks that ended the Napoleonic wars.
Lincoln would have nothing to do with a party of immigrant-haters.
Our long history of demonizing Latin Americans.
80 years after the horrific events of Kristallnacht it’s time to acknowledge his inadequate response.
How the “we’re the chosen people” narrative makes us susceptible to demagogues.
There's evidence this was Christianity's original creed: "There is no Jew or Greek; there is no slave or free; there is no male and female, for you are all one.”
A presidential historian looks back.
Excerpts from the author’s new memoir.
And the rise of Hitler. (Interview)
The new ad promoted by Donald Trump that features an immigrant guilty of murder.
It starts with a power plant built in the 1920s by a Jewish entrepreneur.
What historians are tweeting and retweeting.
What a German diary from the Nazi era teaches us.
In this moment we need self-examination, not celebration.
Then, it was “rootless cosmopolitans” who were targeted. Now it’s globalists.
Their tweets and retweets.
We’re about to find out.
The amateur in the Oval Office has to go – and soon.
Democracy prevailed there while it’s been dying elsewhere.
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