How a wonder vine unveiled by Japan at the 1876 Centennial began eating America. […]
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The Christmas Bombing of Hanoi: A Great Victory or an Epic Blunder?
Was the December 1972 bombing of Hanoi a great victory that brought “peace with honor”? Or was it a blunder that cost South Vietnam its freedom?
Over Here/Over There
American painters like George Ault fought to make sense—and beauty—of a world at war. […]
Interview with Tom Wolfe, the man in white
The country had reason to cheer on May 5, 1961, when Freedom 7 splashed […]
American History Today: August 2011
New Exhibit Lifts Lid on Watergate Cover-up The gift shop at the Richard Nixon […]
A Short History of Debt
The last time government red ink posed such a dire threat was during the […]
Gazette- American History October 2011
Solicitor General Acknowledges Malfeasance in U.S. Handling of Japanese Internment The imprisonment OF 110,000 […]
American History Book Review: The Roosevelt I Knew
The Roosevelt I Knew by Frances Perkins; Penguin Books Frances Perkins was in a […]
Interview with Sam Wineburg, critic of history education
Sam Wineburg, 53, is a professor of education and history at Stanford University and […]
Book Review: Sons and Soldiers
Bruce Henderson’s latest tells the brave stories of the German-born American soldiers who fought in the U.S. Army against their German compatriots