New perspectives on how history is made
The PBS series on Vietnam may have made a big splash. But that doesn’t mean it’s the last word on the subject.
A neglected moment in labor history from the 1930s suggests the answer is no.
For one thing, it shows that during the Cold War the CIA often thought that MI6 adopted hare-brained schemes.
In some cases they have, but the most consistent contribution of foreign volunteers has been political rather than military.
Case study: What happened in Gainesville, Florida in the 1970s.
What historians are saying about Donald Trump's presidency.
An evaluation from a historian of the 19th century’s Civil War 1.0.
On India’s Independence Day it’s worth examining.
Sneezers sought a “Pollenless Paradise.”
The author’s father helped liberate prisoners at a Nazi concentration camp.
The reality is there is no singular “blood” in our soil, for our soil has always belonged to the blood of women and men of all lands.
The film is well made, engrossing, and fundamentally wrong in key respects.
This Medievalist shows in her new book that Europeans in the Middle Ages used racial categories to distinguish outsiders from themselves.
"A recent book I don’t get tired of rereading and teaching is Kate Brown’s Plutopia."
It doesn’t deserve an award for its content.
And of Trump’s complaint that his former campaign manager is being treated like Capone.
The story of the Carter administration’s response to the Indochinese refugee crisis forty years ago.
It’s the story of America’s hidden role in the Soviet invasion of Manchuria.
Forms of exclusion have helped democracies distinguish between citizens and non-citizens since the founding of democracy itself, all the way back to classical Athens.
Given the state’s history, it’s clear the law was actually about controlling women.
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