New perspectives on how history is made
This may give the Democrats the upper hand in a fight the parties have been waging over families since the late 1970s.
History does not repeat itself. Nor does it rhyme. But it does give us insight. We should pay attention.
His is an old complaint about immigrant “sob stories” dating back to the 1920s.
For being a remarkably ambiguous text in so many ways, its position on the treatment of immigrants is consistent.
How religion led these two figures to vastly different conclusions about climate change.
Four decades after it was reinvented by Carter and Mondale, the Office of the Vice Presidency is sinking in status.
The Confederates marched on Gettysburg on account of their need for … shoes.
In tumultuous times like these, they have trouble gaining traction, as this example from the American Revolution shows.
He was accused of treason. Only the hunger for reconciliation saved him.
How the Great War spawned a tyrant.
This includes tearing children away from their mothers.
To this Holocaust historian what's happening is unconscionable.
It’s a particularly American phenomenon.
That sounds like a topic from another era. But it’s shockingly of the moment.
It shows that slavery was not the only injustice affecting African Americans before the Civil War.
His name was Josiah Henson and he once was as famous as Frederick Douglass. So what happened?
How domestic discord led Athens (and America?) to defeat.
The answer seems all too clear.
If we did they’d probably fail and the for the same reason they failed in the past.
The U.S. military has taken us through the gates of hell.
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