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Public Interest Declassification Board Seeks Input on Declassification Priorities

by Lee White

The PIDB is seeking the input of historians on the declassification process.

The Nazis' Gun Ban Facilitated Kristallnact

by Stephen Halbrook

Jewish-owned guns were registered and were easily confiscated in the weeks before the onslaught.

Averted: The War Between Iran and America

by Juan Cole

The dream of the neoconservatives during the Bush administration -- an American flag in Tehran -- looks to be just that: a dream.

Documenting Historians' Revolutionary Demographic Change

by Alan M. Kraut and David A. Gerber

In 1962, the president of the American Historical Association warned about young historians of "lower middle-class or foreign origins." How times have (thankfully) changed.

I Don't Care Who Killed JFK

by Peter Dreier

It really doesn't matter who killed the thirty-fifth president.

The Problem with "Extraterritoriality"

by Alan McPherson

U.S. soldiers accused of crimes in Afghanistan are tried in U.S. courts. That's been a problem before during the occupation of the Dominican Republic.

What Happens When a Country's Culture is Replaced by Immigrants?

by Diana Muir Appelbaum

It happened before in Mexican Texas.

Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union [INTERVIEW]

by David Austin Walsh

Journalist Peter Savodnik discusses his new book, "The Interloper."

A New Film Life of President John F. Kennedy [INTERVIEW]

by Robin Lindley

Director Susan Bellows on the PBS documentary "JFK."

Why Didn't Obama Say "Under God" in His Recitation of the Gettysburg Address?

by John Fea

Simple: Because "under God" isn't in the version Obama was asked to read.

Would We Still Have Had "The Sixties" If Kennedy Had Lived?

by James T. Patterson

Remember, the turmoil of the 1960s stemmed from forces unrelated to JFK's assassination.

Why Lee Harvey Oswald Pulled the Trigger

by Steven M. Gillon

The Warren Commission painted him as a disaffected sociopath. But Oswald actually had a political reason to kill JFK: to impress Castro.

Does PBS's "JFK" Whitewash Kennedy's Flaws?

by Sheldon M. Stern

The new PBS documentary fails to rise above the imagery crafted by Arthur Schlesinger and Theodore Sorensen in the 1960s.

Will Typhoon Haiyan Cause Meaningful Political Reform in the Philippines?

by Richard T. Chu

Natural disasters can often spark political reforms, especially in corrupt and nepotistic countries like the Philippines. But here's why that probably won't happen.

Is the "Yellow Peril" Dead?

by Ellen D. Wu

How Asian Americans became the model minority -- and why whites still consider them to be a threat.

The Silver Lining of Obama's Weak America

by Daniel Pipes

Obama's weakness is forcing America's allies to step up.

The Kennedys and Martin Luther King

by Yohuru Williams

King and the Kennedys remain important symbols of the power of hope and the promise of a just democracy.

Abraham Lincoln Never Believed in Racial Equality

by Alan J. Singer

"I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races."

Veterans Day, Ninety-Five Years On

by Adam Hochschild and Joe Sacco

The enduring folly of the Battle of the Somme.

Thanks for Scuttling the Nuclear Deal with Iran, France

by Juan Cole

French foreign minister Laurent Fabius threw cold water on the negotiations in Geneva on Saturday.