New perspectives on how history is made
His mercy.
Is Bernie Sanders our William Jennings Bryan?
Should the Democratic nomination go to the pragmatist or the idealist, the progressive or the socialist?
The fascinating story that can now be told about the quip thanks to digitized data bases.
He made it possible for entrepreneurs to thrive.
They said that the book was too hard to read. This is a problem.
Admittedly, this is an unusually small topic for a book about Roosevelt, a man who looms large. But I have three reasons.
Reflections on George Washington, Valentine’s Day and Presidents Day.
*Except that the same thing was said about 11 other people in the last century – and they wound up being president.
Peace Action—the largest peace organization in the United States—has announced its endorsement of Bernie Sanders for the Democratic nomination for President.
Lincoln’s career should remind us that moral complexity lies at the heart of the American experience.
And the lesson it holds for us today as we decide whether to admit Syrian refugees.
A professor who teaches whiteness studies says it disrupts our way of thinking of white identity as normal.
Faux historian David Barton can keep saying Jefferson wanted a Christian America but it’s not true.
It happened in Kentucky in 1899 in a blatantly stolen election.
And few noticed until now?
But what kind of ex-president is he going to be?
A surprising amount of business, both small and large, is done with unanimous consent, meaning without any dissent, says a former Senate historian.
It’s made our politics much more susceptible to irrationality.
A historian finds both can make a compelling argument.
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