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 .

Oct 18, 2016

In Praise of Abandoning Your Party

by Gil Troy

Oct 14, 2016

Know-Nothing Bigot Who Won Big

by Gil Troy

Sep 29, 2016

The Man Who Went Full Trump for FDR

by Gil Troy

Sep 18, 2016

The Man Who Could Make Your Kids Less Ignorant

by Gil Troy

Sep 13, 2016

When America Rejected its Homegrown 'Joe McNazi'

by Gil Troy

Aug 21, 2016

Jonathan Daniels: The Forgotten Civil Rights Preacher Killed by a Cop in Alabama

by Gil Troy

Aug 15, 2016

How General Motors Saved Rosa Parks

by Gil Troy

Jul 25, 2016

How Originality Vanished From Political Speeches

by Gil Troy

Jul 25, 2016

U.S. Political Conventions Have Been Weird From The Start

by Gil Troy

Jul 19, 2016

When Eisenhower Took on Big Oil

by Gil Troy

Jul 4, 2016

When Elie Wiesel Confronted Ronald Reagan

by Gil Troy

Jul 4, 2016

Inside the Nazi Camp on Long Island

by Gil Troy

Jun 29, 2016

The Racist Origins of the SAT

by Gil Troy

Jun 19, 2016

How a Sexist Prank Elected America’s First Female Mayor

by Gil Troy

Jun 7, 2016

Westway, New York's Great Highway That Never Was

by Gil Troy

Jun 7, 2016

How an Outsider President Killed a Party

by Gil Troy

May 22, 2016

The Secrets of the Woman in Hitler’s Bathtub

by Gil Troy

Mar 20, 2016

The NY Rens Were The ‘Greatest Basketball Team You Have Never Heard Of’

by Gil Troy

Mar 9, 2016

The German Jew Who Became an Ottoman Pasha

by Gil Troy

Mar 9, 2016

Filming Rodney King’s Beating Ruined His Life

by Gil Troy