Politics
Stuart D. Goldman |
Published: July 30, 2010 at 9:29 am
The seductive spy Richard Sorge, a German in Japan, paved Stalin's path to victory
Peter Brush |
Published: July 28, 2010 at 12:44 pm
Unprecedented declines in morale and discipline among troops in Vietnam spawned fragging a phenomenon forever tied to the Vietnam War in which the M26, M61 or M67 fragmentation grenade was used to kill a superior officer often ending in court-martial
Edward Rasen |
Published: July 12, 2010 at 1:44 pm
Newly declassified documents and fresh insight from Frank Snepp, the CIA's chief analyst in Vietnam during 1975, present a revealing new picture of the chaotic final days of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, before enemy forces captured Saigon on April 30
Published: July 07, 2010 at 8:55 am
A proposed casino near the site of Pickett's Charge has landed the Gettysburg National Military Park on the Civil War Preservation Trust's list of the 10 most endangered battlefields in 2010.
In its annual report History Under Siege, CWPT identified …
Jack Rakove |
Published: June 03, 2010 at 3:11 pm
John Dickinson was America’s most renowned patriot until he refused to sign the Declaration of Independence.
H.W. Brands |
Published: June 03, 2010 at 3:10 pm
Wall Street bailed out the feds when J.P. Morgan saved the U.S. Treasury from collapse in 1895.
Laurence Rees |
Published: June 01, 2010 at 12:18 pm
Seventeen top historians weigh in on the moment that decided the war.
Colonel Harry G. Summers Jr. |
Published: May 19, 2010 at 1:51 pm
Colonel Harry G. Summers Jr., the founding editor of Vietnam magazine, clears up some of the deliberate distortions that continue to obscure understanding of the Vietnam War
Thomas A. Horrocks |
Published: April 29, 2010 at 1:16 pm
Could Buchanan Have Stopped the Civil War?
Either the much-maligned James Buchanan was the unmitigated disaster of legend, or he deserves an apology.
Don North |
Published: April 22, 2010 at 10:59 am
On April 26, 2010, The American Experience series examines the 1968 massacre of civilians at My Lai during the Vietnam War and contributes to our understanding of why atrocities, and our attempts to cover them up, occur in wartime.
Gary W. Gallagher |
Published: April 13, 2010 at 4:43 pm
Americans who lived through the Civil War established four great interpretive traditions regarding the conflict. The Union Cause tradition framed the war as preeminently an effort to maintain a viable republic in the face of secessionist actions that threatened both …
Mark Grimsley |
Published: April 12, 2010 at 3:54 pm
As late as December 1942, Franco believed that Germany might offer territorial concessions and Spain would join the war on the side of the Axis Powers.
Mark Grimsley |
Published: April 12, 2010 at 11:01 am
Most “what if” scenarios begin with a plausible rewrite of a historical event; the bombing of Auschwitz does not. As the historical record makes clear, those who could have authorized the attack firmly rejected the idea.
Mark Grimsley |
Published: April 12, 2010 at 10:55 am
Without rabid racism, the Nazi Party still would have brought war to Europe.
Ray Raphael |
Published: April 01, 2010 at 8:18 am
The Boston Tea Party wasn’t about higher taxes. It was America’s first response to too big to fail.
Parke Pierson |
Published: March 01, 2010 at 4:26 pm
Preston Brooks' big stick diplomacy:
Heated oratory leads to violence in the hallowed halls of the U.S. Senate
With swift, powerful strokes, South Carolina Congressman Preston Brooks battered the prostrate body in the aisle of the nearly empty U.S. Senate …
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