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Mar 18, 2015

When Did Mandatory Vaccinations Become Common?

by Cristina Valldejuli

Anti-Vaxxers are upset with mandatory Measles vaccinations. But mandatory vaccinations have a long history in the United States.

Mar 16, 2015

The UN Success Story Nobody Talks About

by William Lambers

On the fifth anniversary of the Syrian Civil War, it’s worth remembering that but for the UN millions would have starved to death.

Mar 16, 2015

Los Angeles Conference Confronts BDS Financing and Tactics

by Edwin Black

Several hundred individuals will gather March 21-23, 2015 in a Los Angeles hotel at the International Anti-BDS Conference convened by the leading pro-Israel group, StandWithUs.

Mar 16, 2015

Lessons the Democratic Party Seems to Have Forgotten

by Mitchell Lerner

What we can learn from LBJ’s populist-inspired fight for ordinary Americans.

Mar 15, 2015

Why Historians Should Use Twitter: An Interview with Katrina Gulliver

by Alexander S. Collie

An interview with Twitterstorian Katrina Gulliver.

Mar 15, 2015

Was Hitler a Normal Leader?

by Gavriel D. Rosenfeld

Increasingly, he and the Nazis are being normalized. Is this a good thing?

Mar 15, 2015

The War in Vietnam: Version 2.0

by Gary Kulik

50 years after the war, the doves are sticking to a narrative that’s been proven flawed.

Mar 15, 2015

How Military Historians Are Using Quantitative Analysis — And You Can Too

by Christopher A. Lawrence

Can other historical data be analyzed to address different relevant current issues? It certainly can with a little imagination and a lot of effort.

Mar 15, 2015

He Was the Predominant Magazine Political Journalist of the 20th Century

by Mark Weisenmiller

His name was Richard Rovere. He was born 100 years ago. We should remember him.

Mar 15, 2015

The Day Lincoln Was Supposed to be Kidnapped

by Michael Schein

It was 150 years ago this week. It failed. A month later the same plotters assassinated Lincoln.

Mar 15, 2015

Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and the Pesky Argument from Character

by M. Andrew Holowchak

Gordon-Reed’s argument has remarkable consequences for the discipline of “behavioral” psychology.

Mar 15, 2015

The Nonsense Myth About Grant and Lee

by William C. Davis

Confederate Lee is remembered as the last of the old America and Yankee Grant as the first of the new one. But in fact they were little different from each other.

Mar 15, 2015

Thomas Fleming: What I'm Reading (Interview)

by Tiffany April Griffin

Why did he choose history as a career? "History seems to have chosen me. My ambition was to be a novelist. To support my wife and 4 children, I worked as a magazine editor." Then he wrote a history essay people liked. And that was that.

Mar 13, 2015

The Year They Cancelled St. Patrick's Day

by Gillian O’Brien

It happened in Chicago in 1890. The reason was murder.

Mar 12, 2015

Let’s talk about Hillary Clinton for the Historical Record

by Nomi Prins

Hillary Clinton didn't just exercise shady judgment, she disrespected American history and the few rules the government has put in place to preserve it.