New perspectives on how history is made
In interview after interview, Kennedy has promulgated her movie’s myth: “The U.S. decided we’ve just got to get the Americans out and leave all our Vietnamese counterparts behind.” That was Nixon's stated view. It's wrong.
As in 1915, the American government still struggles to balance moral leadership with political pragmatism.
One of these two things changed American politics and not in a good way.
The surprising answer is that it’s lost its Presbyterian leaders.
As a presidential candidate Barack Obama spoke plainly about the Armenian genocide. Why doesn’t he as president?
The first in a series of articles about what we know now about the Cuban Missile Crisis that we didn’t know until recently.
So is Vietnam.
The horrible human tragedy and deceit on which the fortune of Cecil Rhodes rests.
How can that be? People believe what they want to believe.
Reagan rode the white backlash—along with other major issues, to be sure—farther than anyone else ever did in American history, before or since.
America’s most beloved reading advocate on the allure of the past.
How race relations look through the eyes of the great-grandson of a slave who looked white.
An interview with Bruce Hoffman, author of “Anonymous Soldiers” (Knopf).
Historians have an obligation to speak out against blatant racism.
It’s time to rewrite the history of the culture wars.
That’s the fascinating approach a medieval French town used to save itself when it was under siege.
The answer has a lot to do with the rising importance of Asia to American business.
The Chinese paid the price for American heroism.
Both Lincoln and his assassin misread the lessons of history.
They relied on analysis by a dozen law school professors that ignored the historical progression towards including gay rights among civil rights.
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