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I Had to Move After Exposing the Seamy History of the City of Decatur, Georgia

by David S. Rotenstein

In the course of my work I endured cyberstalking and threats.

The Hordes Are Banging on the Gates of Europe?

by Thomas Nail

It’s past time to retire this kind of language. The fact that it’s still being used reflects the crisis that is Europe.

It’s Time to Finish What Ike and JFK Started and Ban Nuclear Weapons Testing

by William Lambers

We’ve got the Treaty. The Senate needs to ratify it.

The Alarming Parallels this Historian Sees Between What’s Going on in Congress Today and the Antebellum Congresses He Studies

by Michael Todd Landis

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The Coming of the Civil War: Sean Wilentz Strays Off-Course Here Too

by Daniel W. Crofts

The Wilentz op ed that launched a thousand responses skated by another controversy. It shouldn‘t have.

The Federal Government’s Information Machine

by Kevin R. Kosar and John Maxwell Hamilton

The use of our tax dollars to shape our views is too important to be left in the dark shadows of government.

Cuban Missile Crisis, October 22: The Day Kennedy Stood Up to the Titans of the Senate (Part 6)

by Sheldon M. Stern

Part 6 in Dr. Stern’s ongoing series on the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Surprises in a New Account of FDR

by Roger Daniels

A biographer explains why his portrait breaks with the pack.

The Dangerous Nonsense Ben Carson Is Spreading About Muslims

by Brian A. Catlos

He claims Muslims reserve the right to lie. It’s not true.

The Surprising Consensus on What Experts Say about Putin

by Walter G. Moss

He’s intelligent, capable, pragmatic, distrusts democracy, the US and NATO, and is worried about the threat ISIS poses to Russia.

It’s Ok to Love your ’64 Mustang, but Here’s What You’re Missing

by Gary Cross

What’s good about nostalgia and what isn’t.

We’ve Just Learned the Origins of Illegal Surveillance in the United States Go Back to the 1930s

by Steve Usdin

An oral history just released shows that cryptologists working for the Army knew they were breaking the law when they conducted secret electronic surveillance.

The Vital Fact that’s Been Lost in the Debate Over Those Planned Parenthood Videos

by Johanna Schoen

Fetal tissue research, which began in the 19th century and led to breakthroughs in Polio and other diseases, is not conducted on live human fetuses.

The Part of Jimmy Carter’s Legacy Everyone Wants to Forget

by Mitchell Lerner

It’s his role in the sequence of events that led to North Korea’s acquisition of the bomb.

The Wrong Way to Think About Imperial Empires

by Antoinette Burton

Empire’s rise and fall is a very seductive story. It’s way too simple.

Do You Have a Cherokee in Your Family Tree?

by Gregory D. Smithers

A lot of people claim they do. But do they?

This Is How Wild Politics Used to Be

by Greg Bailey

A story from the time of Abe Lincoln that makes our current vim and vigor look almost pale by comparison.

Real Confederates Never Knew Any Black Confederate Soldiers

by Kevin M. Levin

The story neo-Confederates have been spreading in the weeks since the Charleston shooting that hundreds of thousands of blacks served in the Confederate army are fallacious.

The Presidential Candidate Everybody Compares Bernie Sanders with

by Wallace Hettle

Here’s how it’s fair (and how it’s not).

Republicans Are Reaping What They Have Sown

by James Robenalt

The world changed after the New Deal, but the GOP kept promising it could turn the clock backwards. But it can’t.