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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
December 3, 2013
Geoffrey Wheatcroft
On the Use and Abuse of Munich
Please, American blowhards: No more analogies to 1938
November 22, 2013
John B. Judis
Think Obamacare Can't Be Repealed? It Happened Once in Australia.
November 21, 2013
Matthew Wolfson
This Forgotten Chapter in History Shows How the Tea Party Will Collapse
November 21, 2013
Michael Kazin
We Don't Need Another JFK
Fifty years later, Kennedy's legend makes life at the White House harder for Democrats
November 18, 2013
Sean Wilentz
Does the Gettysburg Address Distract Us from the Real Lincoln?
A prominent historian on the politician behind the oratory
October 29, 2013
Michael Kazin
A Kind Word for Ted Cruz: America Was Built on Extremism
How unpopular opinions move history forward
October 26, 2013
David A. Bell
This Is What Happens When Historians Overuse the Idea of the Network
October 20, 2013
Darrin M. McMahon
How the French Revolution Gave Us the Cult of Genius
October 15, 2013
Peter Savodnik
Inside Lee Harvey Oswald's Lost Soviet Days
October 7, 2013
Josh Sapan
American History in Panorama

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