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Civil War
August 21, 2017
Sarah Jones
Conservatives are still arguing Confederate monuments are testaments to valor.
August 15, 2017
Jeet Heer
No, America is nowhere near a Civil War.
June 23, 2017
Eric Herschthal
The Making of an Antislavery President
Fred Kaplan's new book asks why it took Abraham Lincoln so long to embrace emancipation.
May 26, 2017
Casey N. Cep
Southern History, Deep Fried
John T. Edge's "The Potlikker Papers" looks at multiculturalism, conflict, and civil rights in the American South—all through the history of the region's food.
May 3, 2017
Graham Vyse
Trump’s Ignorance Is Radicalizing U.S. Historians
They're in great demand by the media. But will many Americans even believe what they’re saying, or accuse them of partisan bias?
May 2, 2017
Brian Beutler
Please proceed, President Shutdown.
May 2, 2017
Jeet Heer
Trump’s Crude, Ignorant Theory of American History
His bizarre and mistaken beliefs about the past are a window into his mind—and serve his political agenda.
March 20, 2017
David H. Gans
Does Neil Gorsuch Believe in Liberty and Equality for All?
The judge's selective approach to constitutional originalism raises serious questions about his respect for the Second Founding after the Civil War.
April 20, 2016
Clio Chang
6 reasons Harriet Tubman deserves to be on the $20 bill.
February 29, 2016
Colette Shade
When a State Song Is a Confederate Battle Cry
Critics say “Maryland, My Maryland" is a disgrace. The governor disagrees.
December 18, 2015
Jeet Heer
Ken Burns’s
Star Wars
would be Empire apologia.
December 17, 2015
Suzy Khimm
Robert E. Lee will no longer be presiding over traffic in New Orleans.
November 26, 2015
Jeet Heer
What Thanksgiving Says About America
A comparison with Canada's Thanksgiving reveals the national traits embedded in this secular holiday.
November 10, 2015
Greg Bailey
Why Does This Georgia Town Honor One of America's Worst War Criminals?
The monument to Confederate officer Henry Wirz is down the road from the graveyard of his many victims
April 7, 2015
Brian Beutler
Southerners Shouldn't Take Attacks on the Confederacy Personally
And they should embrace the idea of celebrating the country's reunion
April 6, 2015
Brian Beutler
Make the Confederacy’s Defeat a National Holiday
150 years ago this week, Robert E. Lee surrendered to the Union. Let's celebrate it—every year.
March 23, 2015
Cristian Farias
Was Texas Wrong to Reject a Specialty License Plate Bearing a Confederate Flag?
July 22, 2014
Zalmay Khalilzad
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Kenneth M. Pollack
How to Save Iraq
This is the best, or the least bad, solution to the current crisis
June 24, 2014
Michael Knights
Saddam Hussein's Faithful Friend, the King of Clubs, Might Be the Key to Saving Iraq
Assuming, that is, the mysterious Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri is even still alive
June 13, 2014
Isaac Chotiner
Obama Is Wrong. Iraq's Problems Are Ours, Too.
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