New perspectives on how history is made
Thirty years ago, the U.S. launched Operation Urgent Fury to liberate Grenada from its Marxist-Leninist regime.
Was Kennedy really a great president?
A new biography looks at how FDR’s thwarted dream of serving in a Navy uniform primed him to eventually become president.
The civil rights movement is a perennially popular topic that has spawned a massive body of literature.
Did Metternich's love life affect his judgment at Vienna?
Columbus's discoveries pried loose European curiosity from the vise put in place by the medieval church.
In some ways, there are startling similarities between 1973 and today.
Obits of General Giap have implied we lost in Vietnam because of North Vietnamese callousness to casualties. That's a half-truth at best.
Returning to Diana West's book, American Betrayal.
The Holy Spirit may have inspired "Killing Jesus," but he didn’t fact-check it.
Yes, Chamberlain’s policy was wrong.
Chamberlain did what we would expect any sane leader to do at Munich.
If Obama were truly like Ike in foreign policy...
It was a time of female munitions workers, welders and engineers. As the commemoration nears, remember them.
If the history of the western moral imagination is the story of an enduring and unending revolt against human cruelty, there are few more consequential figures than Raphael Lemkin.
Is the popular historian worth another look?
Chance encounters in the life of Andrei Kolmogorov.
The discovery of the author's real identity will forever change the history of African-American literature.
In September 1863, John Bingham was at the lowest point of his career. But soon he would become the father of the Fourteenth Amendment.
During the Cuban missile crisis, Kennedy struggled as much with the Pentagon as he did with the Kremlin.
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