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July 4, 2014
Brook Wilensky-Lanford
The Dangerous Lies We Tell About America’s Founding
Myths may comfort us, but facts are our best weapon against Tea Party perversions
July 4, 2014
Simon Heffer
Historians Fought About World War I the Moment It Began. They're Still Fighting.
June 28, 2014
Lynn Hunt
Louis XVI Wasn't Killed by Ideas
This is what happens when you ignore the role of politics in intellectual history
June 27, 2014
John B. Judis
The Middle East That France and Britain Drew Is Finally Unravelling
And there's very little the U.S. can do to stop it
June 20, 2014
Joanna Bourke
The History of Pain Is Racist, Sexist, and Classist
June 11, 2014
Simon Schama
This Is the Team That Actually Invented Total Football
They did it in stadium known as Wankdorf (some things a nine-year-old doesn't forget)
June 9, 2014
Susan Schulten
This 19th Century Map Could Have Transformed the West
Too bad Congress didn't listen
June 3, 2014
Yelena Akhtiorskaya
History Turned the Romanov Sisters Into a Fairy Tale. Here's What They Were Really Like.
May 21, 2014
Susan Schulten
World War II Led to a Revolution in Cartography. These Amazing Maps Are Its Legacy.
May 17, 2014
Nina Caplan
How Gin Made British Colonialism Possible
May 11, 2014
Timothy Snyder
The Battle in Ukraine Means Everything
Fascism returns to the continent it once destroyed
May 9, 2014
Jason Walsh
Northern Ireland's Troubles Are Over. But That Doesn't Mean I Am at Peace.
Gerry Adams's arrest awakens a journalist's awful childhood memories
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
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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
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