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Between Existential Fear and Isolationist Exhaustion: The United States on the Eve of the Cold War

Between Existential Fear and Isolationist Exhaustion: The United States on the Eve of the Cold War

Clay Risen on the Geopolitical Shifts and Internal Political Climate That Led to the Red Scare

By Clay Risen | March 21, 2025

What the Work of Literary Production Reveals About the Resonance of History

What the Work of Literary Production Reveals About the Resonance of History

Stuart Nadler: “The work is everything, and the work is heartbreaking.”

By Stuart Nadler | March 19, 2025

How Delayed Desegregation Deprived Black Children of Their Right to Education

How Delayed Desegregation Deprived Black Children of Their Right to Education

Noliwe Rooks on the Ongoing Battle to Desegregate Schools Across America Throughout the 1960s

By Noliwe Rooks | March 19, 2025

On the Colonial Power Struggle That Would Give Birth to the City of New York

On the Colonial Power Struggle That Would Give Birth to the City of New York

For Historian Russell Shorto, It Was All About Water

By Russell Shorto | March 18, 2025

The Former Head of Human Rights Watch on the Challenges of Reporting on the Abuses of Israel’s Government

The Former Head of Human Rights Watch on the Challenges of Reporting on the Abuses of Israel’s Government

Kenneth Roth on Penalizing Journalists for Addressing Palestinian Persecution

By Kenneth Roth | March 17, 2025

Inside the Life and Struggle of Victorian-Era Women’s Rights Activist Annie Besant

Inside the Life and Struggle of Victorian-Era Women’s Rights Activist Annie Besant

Michael Meyer on an Overlooked Early Proponent of Reproductive Freedom in the United Kingdom

By Michael Meyer | March 14, 2025

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A Revolt Against Rationality: On the Utopian Dreams of Early 20th-Century Occultists

By Raphael Cormack | March 14, 2025

How the Vietnam War Exposed America’s Military and Political Vulnerabilities

By James A. Warren | March 14, 2025

How Benjamin Franklin’s Cold Feet Led to a Revolutionary American Invention

By Joyce E. Chaplin | March 11, 2025

From Philly to Derry: On the Americans Who Armed the IRA During The Troubles

From Philly to Derry: On the Americans Who Armed the IRA During The Troubles

Ali Watkins on Vincent Conlon’s Secret Life in the United States as an Operative and Gun-Running Irish Rebel

By Ali Watkins | March 11, 2025

Liverpool Never Forgets: On the Legacy of the Hillsborough Disaster

Liverpool Never Forgets: On the Legacy of the Hillsborough Disaster

Oliver Smith Considers Soccer as Sport and Religion in the United Kingdom

By Oliver Smith | March 10, 2025

Writing Biography Without an Archive: On Recovering a Past Believed to Be Lost

Writing Biography Without an Archive: On Recovering a Past Believed to Be Lost

Vanda Krefft Offers Some Tips to Help Those Who Are Struggling To Find Primary Sources

By Vanda Krefft | March 10, 2025

How a Group of 19th-Century Historians Helped Relativize the Violent Legacy of Slavery

How a Group of 19th-Century Historians Helped Relativize the Violent Legacy of Slavery

Scott Spillman on the Scholarship and Intellectual Legacies of Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, William Dunning and Other Academics

By Scott Spillman | March 10, 2025

What Is Donald Trump Doing? Three Theories for the Madness

What Is Donald Trump Doing? Three Theories for the Madness

Aron Solomon on the Chaos and the Cruelty of the Worst President in American History

By Aron Solomon | March 7, 2025

What the Smallest Artifacts Reveal About the Ancient Cultures That Created Them

What the Smallest Artifacts Reveal About the Ancient Cultures That Created Them

Jennifer Lucy Allan on the Millennia-Long Relationship Between Humans and Hands-On Creation

By Jennifer Lucy Allan | March 7, 2025

Groaning Under the Weight of History: Inside the Natural and Political Landscape of the Carpathian Mountains

Groaning Under the Weight of History: Inside the Natural and Political Landscape of the Carpathian Mountains

Nick Thorpe Explores the Intersections of Geography and Culture in Central and Eastern Europe

By Nick Thorpe | March 7, 2025

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