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Jews Watch Out: Russian Officials Have Revived the Ancient Blood Libel Against Jews

by Eugene M. Avrutin

Russia’s Federal Investigative Committee – the equivalent of the FBI—says there are grounds for believing the family of Tsar Nicholas was a “ritual killing.” These are dangerous code words.

I Wrote a Book About Renaissance Queens. Today’s Stories of Sex Assault Sound Like Something Out of the 16th Century.

by Sarah Gristwood

Like today many men blamed the victim.

What I’m Reading: An Interview with Historian Michael Goebel

by Erik Moshe

“[Reading] Mark Roseman’s A Past in Hiding, the story of a young Jewish woman from Essen, my mother’s hometown … made me consider pursuing history as a career.”

Can We Count on the Courts to Curb Trump?

by Melissa Milewski

History suggests that groups shut out of other branches of government can still use the courts in some circumstances.

When America Last Considered Nuking North Korea

by Paul Ham

And why President Harry Truman resisted overwhelming pressure to do so.

The Story You Haven’t Heard About America’s Response to the Holocaust

by Rafael Medoff

US government officials, defying FDR, helped save 200,000 Jews.

East Europeans Who Lived Under Communism Know All About Fake News

by Vlad B. Jecan

These are some of the lessons they learned.

50 Years Ago Harrison Salisbury Told the American People What Was Really Going on in North Vietnam

by Joe Renouard

The government said he was wrong. History proves he got the big story right.

3 of the 4 Great Black Leaders Between the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement Are Well-Known. But the 4th?

by Burnis R. Morris

His name is Carter G. Woodson. It’s about time we got to know him.

While Other Governments Are Facing Populist Revolts, Japan Is Preparing for an Imperial Succession

by Tom Clifford

The succession, when it comes, will provide Japan with symbols of its past, though some will try to hijack them as markers for the future.

Trump’s Demonization of Muslims Echoes a Dark Chapter in German History

by Richard E. Frankel

His tweeting of anti-Muslim videos could very well have real-world consequences.

The BDS Movement Has Come to Kansas

by Edwin Black

It's split the Mennonites and ended in a lawsuit protesting a Kansas law that bans discrimination against Israel.

Worse than Roy Moore?

by Greg Bailey

His name was Thomas Heflin. He was Alabama's junior senator in the 1920s.

There's an Ominous Parallel with the Fight Over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

by Ronald L. Feinman

It was a similar argument about the power of a president to fill an executive position that ended with the impeachment of Andrew Johnson. 

Trump’s Another in a Long Line of Fiscally Irresponsible Republican Presidents

by Ivan Eland

Before we pass tax cuts, we should lower the deficit.

We’ve Been the Victims of Foreign Propaganda Before

by Nicholas O'Shaughnessy

In a class of their own were the Nazis.

Should We Be Worried About Trump’s Brain?

by Ronald L. Feinman

A quick review shows how the impaired mental health of past presidents has put the nation in jeopardy.

There Are More Imaginative Ways to Deal with Confederate Statues than Tearing Them Down

by Roy E. Finkenbine

Here are two examples.

2 Myths Involving Canada that Every American Should Know

by John U. Bacon

One has to do with the biggest explosion before the atomic bomb.

Key West Should Be Known for This, too

by Arlo Haskell

It was for a time the refuge of Jews and Cubans including José Martí fleeing oppression.