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What Does the Catalonia Vote Mean for Spain?

by Scott Eastman

What’s it mean for Catalonia?

Israel Says Iran’s Lying About Its Nuclear Program? That’s Rich.

by Walter L. Hixson

Israel’s own record is replete with obfuscations and mendacity.

“It’s a Hell of a Thing, Killing a Man.”

by Anthony Galvin

George Stinney was one of the 4% of executed people who are completely innocent. His crime was being black in the forties. He was 14.

The Shameful History of the KKK We Never Knew

by Kevin Waite

The Klan operated in California and other western states after the Civil War. Its target in those states was frequently Chinese laborers.

How Gun Control Came to Britain

by Luke Reader

It happened in 1996 after a former scoutmaster shot dead sixteen five-year olds and a teacher before turning the gun on himself.

This Is How Douglas MacArthur Dealt with Poor, Starving People

by William Lambers

We should follow his example.

It’s Time to Rethink Auschwitz If We Want to Understand the Holocaust

by Timothy Snyder

The shooting of Jews over pits preceded and killed more Jews than did Auschwitz. There are good reasons to remember that.

The Shameful Response to the Refugee Crisis in Europe

by Maurizio Albahari

We can shed tears for little Alan Kurdi, but we forfeit the right if we don’t do something.

Muhammad Ali and the Supreme Court Case that Redefined the Role of Sports Heroes in American Culture: Part 1

by Mark Weisenmiller

Ali’s controversial conversion from Christianity to Islam.

Jefferson’s Later-in-Life Fascination with Jesus

by M. Andrew Holowchak and Amy J. Barbee

Though he’s well-known as a skeptic of religion, Jefferson became a fervent admirer of Jesus.

The Medieval Chastity Belt - Myth or Reality?

by Albrecht Classen

It's one of the great jokes history has played on the modern world. 

We Are Missing the Point of John Boehner’s Resignation

by Thomas Fleming

He wasn't forced out.  His resignation was intended as a warning to his party. We can only hope it's heard. 

These Are the Hard Steps that Must Be Taken to Resolve the Syrian Mess

by Dr. Alon Ben-Meir

What started as a civil war in Syria nearly five years ago has now evolved into an international crisis unmatched by any other since World War II.

A Historian's Assessment of John Boehner's Legacy

by K.C. Johnson

Boehner should best be seen as a figure whose Speakership came as a result of forces beyond his control, but who operated within this system to aggressively expand the institutional authority of the House.

Our Problem with Putin Is that He Sees the World Very Differently than We Do

by Jonathan Adelman

To understand Putin Americans need to contemplate a world often defeated, quite religious, far away and wrapped up in its history, all traits alien to the modern and liberal United States in 2015.

Get Used to It Europe: Homogenous States Are a Thing of the Past

by Lawrence Davidson

The population in western and central Europe has been shifting in the direction of diversity for the last seventy years.

TR and Trump: Two Very Different People, but There’s this One Significant Similarity

by Margaret O’Mara

At a restive moment in history, renegades draw millions to their side.

Why Academic Historians Should Focus Once Again on the American Presidency

by Brian Balogh and Bruce J. Schulman

The time is ripe to restore this field to academic respectability.

150 Years Later How Are We Honoring the Memory of Reconstruction? With the Worst Kind of Irony.

by Adam Arenson

We’re doing it by reenacting its worst elements, from race-based violence to anti-immigrant fear-mongering.

October 22: The President Makes Certain that His Orders Have Been Carried Out (Part 5)

by Sheldon M. Stern

Another installment in Sheldon Stern's special series on the Cuban Missile Crisis.