Gil Troy

Gil Troy is a professor of history at McGill University. His latest book — his tenth — is The Age of Clinton: America in the 1990s .

Jan 7, 2018

The Colonel Who Plotted the 14 Points of World Peace

by Gil Troy

Jan 1, 2018

The Labor Journalist Blinded by Union Thugs

by Gil Troy

Dec 24, 2017

How a Shy Jewish Boy’s Nose Issues Gave America Rudolf for Christmas

by Gil Troy

Dec 17, 2017

How America’s First Black Ambassador Became a Popular Hero

by Gil Troy

Dec 11, 2017

How the American Sappho Published the First Book of Lesbian Love Poetry

by Gil Troy

Dec 8, 2017

Female Reporter Broke Epic Congressional Sex Scandal—In 1850

by Gil Troy

Nov 27, 2017

Director Peter Glenville Was a Brilliant Artist, a Conservative—and in the Closet in 1960’s Hollywood

by Gil Troy

Nov 22, 2017

Samuel Untermyer: The Superlawyer Who Took on Hitler

by Gil Troy

Nov 22, 2017

Samuel Untermyer: The Superlawyer Who Took on Hitler

by Gil Troy

Nov 12, 2017

The Builder of World’s ‘Eighth Wonder’ Who Died of Stress

by Gil Troy

Nov 8, 2017

The Confederate General Who Became a ‘Race Traitor’

by Gil Troy

Oct 25, 2017

The Man Who Created Yankees’ Murderers’ Row

by Gil Troy

Oct 15, 2017

The Casting Couch Perverts Who Peddled Fairy Tales

by Gil Troy

Oct 9, 2017

The Teen Killer Who Radicalized the NRA

by Gil Troy

Sep 17, 2017

The One-Armed Orphan Who Brought Human Rights To The World

by Gil Troy

Sep 4, 2017

The Preacher Whose Statue Was Booted for Reagan

by Gil Troy

Aug 14, 2017

The Surprisingly Glamorous History of New Jersey Presidential Vacations

by Gil Troy

Aug 7, 2017

The Truth About Colonel Klink: When America's Favorite Comedy Nazi Commandant Was Played by a Jewish Refugee

by Gil Troy

Jul 24, 2017

This Anti-Slavery Crusader Was The Enemy of Lincoln

by Gil Troy

Jul 18, 2017

How Nikola Tesla Sparked the Electric Age

by Gil Troy