Roundup: Talking About History

JFK's Real Legacy

by Ivan Eland

The unintended consequences of needless foreign meddling.

The Gettysburg Address: Much Noted and Long Remembered

by Ronald C. White Jr.

"It's only words." But the Gettysburg Address was so much more.

The Road to America Leads Through Gettysburg

by Nancy F. Koehn

Without the Gettysburg Address, we don’t have the promise of America.

The City With a Death Wish in Its Eye

by James McAuley

Dallas's role in Kennedy's murder.

Lincoln’s Sound Bite: Have Faith in Democracy

by Allen C. Guelzo

The surprisingly short story of the Gettysburg Address is that it was a surprisingly short speech.

Was JFK Really a Conservative?

by Ronald Radosh

Where was John F. Kennedy on the ideological spectrum?

Lee Harvey Oswald Was My Friend

by Paul Gregory

From nearly the moment I met Lee Harvey Oswald, it seemed that he felt the world had sized him up wrong.

How Jackie Kennedy Invented the Camelot Legend After JFK’s Death

by James Piereson

While the nation was still grieving JFK’s assassination, she used an influential magazine profile to rewrite her husband’s legacy and spawn Camelot.

The Nazi Anatomists

by Emily Bazelon

How the corpses of Hitler's victims are still haunting modern science—and American abortion politics.

JFK Assassination: CIA and New York Times are Still Lying to Us

by David Talbot

Fifty years later, a complicit media still covers up for the security state. We need to reclaim our history.

How Diversity Will Alter Black History

by Lynette Holloway

Will there still be a need for Black History Month?

The Passion of Solomon Northrup

by Eric Herschthal

If the film is “true” to anything in the book, it should be true to Northup’s voice, not his facts; that voice is what makes “12 Years a Slave” so enduring.

Better to be Wrong than Right?

by Walter Laqueur

For some intellectuals, it all depends.

This Book Was the First to Spill JFK's Secrets.

by John B. Judis

So why has "The Search for JFK" been unfairly forgotten?

My Lai, Sexual Assault and the Black Blouse Girl

by Valerie Wieskamp

Forty-five years later, one of America’s most iconic photos hides truth in plain sight.

Segregated Sisterhoods and the Mercurial Politics of Racial Truth-Telling

by Shannen Dee Williams

African-American Catholics were routinely denied admission to sisterhoods and congregations.

This Is What Happens When Historians Overuse the Idea of the Network

by David A. Bell

Historians have been applying the network -- the controlling metaphor of the digital age -- to everything, even the distant past. Maybe that's not such a great idea.

Where Did Syphilis Come From?

Did Columbus and his sailors really transport the bacterium back from the New World?

The Union’s Most Undervalued General

by Phil Leigh

George Thomas, the hero of Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and Nashville, was unfairly forgotten by history.

Handmaidens of Genocide

by Konrad H. Jarausch

"Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields" is a shocking reading experience.