New perspectives on how history is made
They are following a long-established script: exploiting disunity, using proxies, and courting public opinion by pretending to be objective mediators.
The Paris Tragedy and the American Right’s Vilification of France.
Is this an attempt to push France out of the anti-ISIS coalition in Syria?
The Establishment denies that these attacks have anything to do with Islamists. They're wrong. But the public understands.
The big fear about legalization is that the pot business is ripe for corporate exploitation.
The Jewish baseball player who left the field to fight Hitler.
In Watchman, Lee erases the distance between the reader and problem at the heart of the story, racism, and forces us to deal with it in ways that we did not in To Kill A Mockingbird
They give him a lesson.
The debt environmental activists owe Native Americans.
The life and death of the Iraqi behind the WMD myth.
He was a player in the events that brought down Nixon, not just an observer. Here’s what he did.
Forty years ago this month they were on opposite sides in the fight over Angola, with the US on the side of South Africa’s apartheid regime.
It’s where the Communists and the West squared off.
American history needs to be rewritten to give credit to the Eisenhower administration.
How we can learn from what the navy did in World War II (and what the army failed to do).
Once every generation or so, history abruptly floors the accelerator and leaps off the road. Are we there?
The fascinating backstory by the acclaimed author of books on environmental history, memory, and Indian wars.
It’s happening in the Middle East and here at home, threatening the legacy of the Enlightenment.
The shocking answer is World War I. It’s finally getting a memorial, but questions remain about how it's being remembered.
The role historians can play in rectifying the problem.
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