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A Memorial to the "Forgotten War" of Korea with the insignias of the United States Uniformed Services ringed around it.

Forgotten War, Tragic Peace

Can This Election Produce Another Hundred Days?

“What I Did On My Summer Vacation,” by the President

… veterans sat next to the Lincoln cottage. Across the road a national cemetery full of fresh graves offered another …

Gay Rights: Separate but Equal?

… later this year. Vermont did create the category of “civil union,” which gives gay couples who wish to have their … the same legal rights as married couples. But a civil union is not the same thing as a gay marriage: Vermont’s law …

An integrated classroom in Anacostia High School, Washington, D.C., in 1957.

The Unfinished Business of School Desegregation

Official Portrait of President Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan

“The Reagans”: The Spirit of Censorship Lives

… history. Ed Gillespie, chairman of the Republican National Committee, complained that the CBS script contains … novels, also, present only inspiring depictions of national figures? The emphasis on positive portrayals …

Ten Terrorists Attacks in History

… the most recent examples of terrorist violence to make international headlines. Terrorism, as opposed to ordinary … and bring to life the world’s first socialist state, the Soviet Union. 2. Irgun: Zionist terrorism Irgun’s bomb collapsed …

Cover of The Battle of Adwa African Victory in the Age of Empire by Raymond Jonas

When Ethiopia Stunned the World

Review of The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire, by Raymond Jonas (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press, 2011)

Cover of With Our Backs to the Wall Victory and Defeat in 1918 by David Stevenson.

The End of the War as They Knew It

Review of With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918, by David Stevenson (Cambridge, M.A.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011)

Playing Fast and Loose with Historical Analogies

… said that Kennedy undertook pre-emptive action against the Soviet introduction of nuclear-tipped missiles into Cuba. …

Sailors in formation at the Center for Information Warfare Training, Naval Air Station Pensacola Corry Station, 2019.

Will Women Join the Ranks of Esteemed Veterans?

The image of a Thunderbird on top of a totem pole

“Allese Rondade”, that is to say, ‘Shoot!’”

Review of Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America, by David J. Silverman (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2016)

Getting Wrong with Lincoln

… Lincoln script doctors. During the 1992 Republican national convention, former President Ronald Reagan …

Churchill on Iraq: “Living on an Ungrateful Volcano”

Protester opposing gay marriage in Boston, 2007. The sign compares gay rights in the U.S. to Nazi, Germany.

Gays, Nazis, and the GOP

… homosexuality," Hitler told his aide Josef Goebbels. "The National Socialist State must be a manly state." Before …

Cover of A Decade of Upheaval: The Cultural Revolution in Rural China by Dong Guoqiang and Andrew G. Walder.

The View from the Countryside

Review of A Decade of Upheaval: The Cultural Revolution in Rural China, by Dong Guoqiang & Andrew G. Walder (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021)

… Feng County's remote location, it was China's unpredictable national politics that shaped the conflict in Feng County. … of the conflict, the authors make a strong case that national politics set the tone and tenor for the Cultural … counties could be drawn into the Cultural Revolution’s national maelstrom, but the question remains of just how …

Mosaics from the apse in the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna. Justinian is the figure in the center. The mosaics were completed in 547 CE.

The Justinianic Plague

… during the First Pandemic (541-750),” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (25), June 19, 2019. … Plague: An Inconsequential Pandemic?,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (51), December 19, 2019. … in part, by Ohio Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, …