New perspectives on how history is made
The unrelenting hostility to Israel in the greater Middle East continues.
How the paranoid style in American politics has shut down the government.
Stone and Kuznick explain how telling the untold history can change the world for the better.
Aggressive U.S. moves against Cuba loomed large in Khrushchev’s decision to send in the missiles.
JFK's presidential run in 1960 could be a blueprint for a score of Democrats in 2016.
Recently-unearthed barrels lift the lid on one of the Pentagon’s best-kept Vietnam War secrets -- the storage of military defoliants in Japan.
Records from the Clinton Library show then-Associate White House Counsel Kagan's key role in drafting legal policy.
How the Pentagon is using your tax dollars to turn Italy into a launching pad for the wars of today and tomorrow.
Most federal agencies -- including archives and parks -- are closed. It just got a LOT harder to do history in the United States.
The letter, found by researcher Anthony Clark, is the only documented expression of Truman's feelings on the matter.
Saudi Arabia is a wealthy country, with vast tracts of land and part of the Arab world. Why shouldn't Syrian refugees go there instead of Germany?
Two words: global warming.
America is not exceptional when we commit to martial virtues; America is exceptional when we commit ourselves to liberty.
Moderates are a depressingly vanishing breed... and in the absence of moderates, extremism, anger, and shrillness rule the day.
Marylanders tried to kill Lincoln in 1861, Marylander John Wilkes Booth actually killed Lincoln in 1865, and Maryland's state song STILL condemns Lincoln as a tyrant.
Mahone and his Readjuster Party formed a biracial coalition that controlled Virginia for four years in the 1880s.
In the United States today few of us value wisdom. This was not always the case.
The death of American Exceptionalism -- and of me.
Written in contrary to certain shibboleths...
The American exceptionalism sweepstakes.
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