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The Other Jefferson We Seem to Have Forgotten

by Kevin Gutzman

It’s not an exaggeration to call him our greatest statesman.

Beyond Forgetting: An Interview with Steve Sem-Sandberg on His Historical Novel, "The Chosen Ones"

by Robin Lindley

Acclaimed Swedish author Steve Sem-Sandberg brings to life the world of the horrific Spiegelgrund clinic in his recent award-winning novel, "The Chosen Ones."

The 75th Anniversary of FDR’s Order to Intern Japanese-Americans Is Frighteningly Timely

by Joanne Bernardi

More than ever, we need to think beyond borders and identities, to reframe the issues at hand in terms of what it means to be human.

Melania Trump May Be a Reluctant First Lady – But so Were Others

by Kathryn Smith

Even Eleanor Roosevelt didn’t want to be first lady.

So You Think Trump’s Victory Was an Outlier Because the Election Was so Close?

by Ronald L. Feinman

Actually, very slim vote margins in numerous presidential elections have transformed American history.

Donald Trump Is On His Way to Second or Third Shortest Presidency in American History

by Ronald L. Feinman

The Pence Presidency seems inevitable.

Cries of Violating the Logan Act Are Frequent

by Kathryn Smith

How seriously they are taken depends on what else is going on.

The Controversy over the Dakota Access Pipeline Is a Twenty-First Century Replay of Manifest Destiny

by Billy J. Stratton

The US government wants the resources of the Lakota and Dakota people and it's taking them. Again.

What Did the Founding Fathers Think of Fake News?

by Robert W.T. Martin

They disagreed what to do about it, but were sure of one thing: it’s dangerous.

How Should We Teach About Human Rights in the Trump Era?

by Luke Reader

Here’s how I’m doing it.

Trump Is Right that Trade Has Cost Jobs. But His Solution Is Terrible.

by Louis Ferleger and Jay Mandle

What’s he’s done is pit low-wage workers in the USA against lower-wage workers in foreign countries. This is an old trick.

Why W.E.B. DuBois’s Question to Black People – “How does it feel to be a problem?” – Is Still Relevant

by Paul Lawrie

The answer is the so-called problem of race has always been a problem of labor.

Davos Cosmopolitanism Is Under Attack. But Were the 19th Century Cosmopolitans Like Richard Burton Role Models?

by Paulo Lemos Horta

Some conservatives mistakenly think they are. They’re wrong.

The Dangerous Myth of “Political Correctness”

by Joan E. Cashin

The accusation of “political correctness” is now routinely hurled by people who have never taught at a university, and even worse, who do not accept the university’s purpose.

The Appalling Echo this Historian Hears in Trump’s Rebuke to the Media

by Corey M. Brooks

It sounds like the arguments made in antebellum America by proslavery activists.

In Many Ways but Two, Donald Trump Is No Different from Other Presidents Who Were Indifferent to Religion

by Donne Levy

One is how he’s treated women. Two, is that evangelicals haven’t seemed to care.

Trump Isn’t the First Entrepreneur to Become President

by Joe Carlen

Indeed, he’s just the latest in a long-line of entrepreneur politicians going back to ancient times.

The Middle East Seems to People in the West a Foreign Place. It Isn’t.

by Christopher Binetti

We should see the modern Middle East as another branch of our own Western Civilization and hope for it to reclaim its roots in freedom, law, and order.

Lincoln Viewed the Civil War as a Struggle for Majority Rule. Today a Minority Governs.

by Jeremy Tewell

Is this democracy?

Who Really Freed the Slaves?

by Michael Hogan

We should be teaching our kids the stories about blacks who won major battles in the Civil War.