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April 26, 2014
Abbas Milani
Thomas Jefferson Was a Muslim
A candidate was accused of being a closet Muslim. In the 18th century, not the 21st.
April 23, 2014
David Thomson
These Newsreels Tell the History of the 20th Century
April 17, 2014
Timothy Snyder
Ukrainian Extremists Will Only Triumph if Russia Invades
April 15, 2014
Michael Kazin
Celebrating LBJ Amounts to Imperial Myopia
April 15, 2014
David Greenberg
I'm OK With Calling LBJ a "Liberal Hero" (and No, I'm Not Ignoring Vietnam)
April 9, 2014
Joan Bradley Wages, Sonya Michel
The National Women's History Museum Needs to Focus on Getting a Museum Built
A CEO responds: It's unfair to prejudge a museum that doesn't exist—yet
April 7, 2014
Sonya Michel
The National Women's History Museum Apparently Doesn't Much Care for Women's Historians
April 2, 2014
Ali Wyne
The World Is Much Safer Than 20th-Century Historians Would Have You Believe
March 24, 2014
Lane Florsheim
The Evolution of the Death Penalty in One Map
March 23, 2014
Charles King
How the Horrors of Crimea Shaped Tolstoy
How a war made the great Russian novelist
March 10, 2014
Alice Robb
'Youth Bias' Makes Us Think the Most Important Events Happen When We're Young
February 27, 2014
David A. Bell
The Historical Analogy That Should Have Ukraine's Revolutionaries Very Worried
February 7, 2014
Oliver Bullough
Sochi Is Haunted by the Ghosts of a Forgotten Genocide
The Winter Olympics arrive 150 years after an ethnic cleansing
February 1, 2014
Simon Heffer
What Really Happened at the Battle of Waterloo
January 26, 2014
What Can 1914 Tell Us About 2014?
The disturbing parallels between pre-WWI and today
January 26, 2014
Isaac Chotiner
Will the Next World War Start in the Middle East?
January 16, 2014
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John B. Judis
Seeds of Doubt
Harry Truman's concerns about Israel and Palestine were prescient—and forgotten.
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December 26, 2013
John B. Judis
Ten Books Any Student of American History Must Read
December 10, 2013
Alice Robb
The Game Theory Behind Mandela's Negotiations to End Apartheid
December 9, 2013
Isaac Chotiner
Conservatives Haven't Wrestled With Mandela's Legacy Because They Haven't Wrestled With the Cold War

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