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November 7, 2014
James Goldgeier
To Contain Russia, the U.S. Should Return to Cold War Policies
October 28, 2014
James McAuley
Jewish History is Not Just About the Holocaust. Finally, a Museum Gets That.
"The last thing Poland needs is a Holocaust museum. … The whole country is a Holocaust museum.”
October 27, 2014
Hillary Kelly
Let's Bring Back Mourning Clothes
October 22, 2014
Britt Peterson
Why Are We So Fixated on the Crimes of the Victorians?
October 17, 2014
David M. Friedman
Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman Once Spent an Afternoon Together. Here's What Happened.
October 17, 2014
Susan Schulten
This Riveting 1830s Temperance Map Warned Against the Dangers of “Beer Lake”
October 10, 2014
A.A. Gill
The Suit Is the Greatest British Invention
September 21, 2014
Cass R. Sunstein
What If Counterfactuals Never Existed?
Studying history with hypotheticals
September 17, 2014
Alice Robb
The Strange Case of An 18th-Century Sex Change Surgery
A chance discovery leads to one of the earliest known instances of the operation
September 14, 2014
Geoffrey Kabaservice
Was the Spiritual Father of the GOP Actually a Democrat?
September 12, 2014
Alexandra Buxton
When 'Mistress' Meant 'Mrs.' and 'Miss' Meant 'Prostitute'
The weird history of the female title
September 7, 2014
Sean Wilentz
Why Has the American Literary Canon Admitted So Few Historians?
Two mid-century scholars are finally getting their due
August 15, 2014
James Dawson
Why Britain Created Monarchies in the Middle East
August 10, 2014
Susan Schulten
The Story Behind the Ancient Map That Invented Red and Blue States
The country was just as polarized 125 years ago—except the colors were upside down
August 5, 2014
Philip A. Mackowiak
What Andrew Wyeth Could Teach Modern Doctors About Practicing Medicine
The art of medicine is not so far from art
July 30, 2014
Adam Kirsch
Ira Glass Is a Philistine for Saying Shakespeare Sucks, But He's in Good Company
Why writers have spent centuries attacking the Bard
July 16, 2014
Julia Ioffe
Why the Doom and Gloom, America?
Today’s crises are no worse than many in U.S. history
July 8, 2014
Michael Kazin
Woodrow Wilson's Only Good Choice in WWI Was to Avoid It Altogether
July 8, 2014
John M. Cooper
A Victorious Germany in WWI Would Have Prevented the Nazis—But It May Have Been Nearly as Bad
July 7, 2014
John M. Cooper
Why Woodrow Wilson Was Right to Bet on World War I

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