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Demystifying the American Story

John Smith Saved by Pocahontas by Alonzo Chappel, circa 1865 viaWiki Commons.Americans tell a tangled story of their past that has shaped the story itself, replete with inaccuracies, discrepancies and...

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Antietam's Bloody Intersection of War and Politics

Battle of Antietam--Army of the Potomac. Lithograph, 1888.On Wednesday, September 17, 1862, the bloodiest single-day battle in U.S. history was fought at Antietam Creek in Maryland, the first major...

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Understanding the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther and Coretta Scott King in 1964.In 1985, Dr. Clayborne Carson, a professor of history at Stanford University, received a phone call that changed his life. Coretta Scott King called and...

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Crafting the Rules for Hell

Francis Lieber, circa 1865. Credit: Library of Congress.American military and political leaders since the Revolutionary War have grappled with the problem of whether conduct in the hellish horror and...

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Picturing James Baldwin in Exile

1964 portrait of James Baldwin. All photos courtesy of Sedat Pakay.Being out . . . one is really not very far outof the United States . . . One sees it betterfrom a distance . . . from another...

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The Afterlife of the British Empire

Imperial student at the London School of Economics in 1946. Credit: Imperial War Museum.Most historical scholarship on the decline and fall of the British Empire deals with the diplomatic and political...

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On Creating a Groundbreaking Historical Novel

SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhold Heydrich in 1940. Credit: German Federal Archives.I just hope that, however bright and blindingthe veneer of fiction that covers this fabulous story,you will still be able...

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A Primer on America’s Forgotten "Nasty Little War"

In school, most of us learned a couple of facts about America’s evolving imperial ambitions and the Spanish-American War of 1898: the sinking of the battleship Maine in Cuba, the Roughrider charge up...

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Making the Historical Documentary "Makers"

Professor Betsy West on the set of Makers. Credit: Columbia University School of Journalism.Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for...

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The Chaotic and Bloody Aftermath of WWII in Europe

On May 8, 1945, Germany surrendered to the Allies and the Second World War in Europe ended officially. But in reality, the war continued in various guises for several years.British author and historian...

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Escaping Slavery in Washington Territory

When we think of the cruel legacy of slavery and the bloody Civil War that ended this vile institution, it’s unlikely that images of the verdant, sparsely populated Washington Territory soon come to...

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"Cities are the Living Embodiments of Past Decisions"

 Children in wading pool at Cascade Playground, Seattle, 1939. All photos credit Seattle Museum of History and Industry.Stories about place are makeshift things.They are composed with the world’s...

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Ira Katznelson: The Racist History of the New Deal

WPA Poster, 1935.When Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president in 1932, the United States faced uncertainty and imminent peril at home and abroad. The unemployment rate was 25 percent. Systems of...

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The Brutal War on Vietnamese Civilians: Interview with Nick Turse

U.S. commanders wasted ammunition like millionaires and hoarded American lives like misers, and often treated Vietnamese lives as if they were worth nothing at all.--Nick Turse, Kill Anything That...

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How Memory Works: Interview with Psychologist Daniel L. Schacter

Image viaShutterstock.Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events.--Albert EinsteinMemory is the stuff of history. Historians rely on the memories of individuals as they seek and...

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FDR’s Alter Ego: Interview with Historian David L. Roll on Harry Hopkins

Harry Hopkins as secretary of commerce. Credit: Wiki Commons.During the war years Hopkins would become the only person in the U.S. government other than the president to thoroughly understand the...

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Jim Downs: Civil War and Emancipation the "Greatest Biological Catastrophe...

Contraband during the Civil War. Credit: Wiki Commons.January 1, 2013 will mark the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the effective date of the Emancipation Proclamation.We tend to think of the...

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How Depression Went Mainstream: Interview with Dr. Edward Shorter

Image via Shutterstock.Every year, more and more Americans are treated for complaints of depression and often do not derive relief from treatment for their symptoms that may include anxiety, fatigue,...

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Marie Arana: Simon Bolivar the "Polar Opposite" of George Washington (INTERVIEW)

Credit: Wiki CommonsNot Alexander, not Hannibal, not even Julius Caesar had fought across such a vast, inhospitable terrain. Charlemagne’s victories would havehad to double to match Bolívar’s....

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Michael Fullilove: FDR the Greatest Statesman of the Twentieth Century...

FDR and Churchill onboard the HMS Prince of Wales during the Atlantic Charter Conference. At far left is Averell Harriman.To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This...

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The Thrilling Untold Saga of Rescue Behind the Lines in World War II Albania...

British SOE officer Lieutenant Gavan Duffy being thanked for his role in the rescue of twenty-six American nurses and medics trapped in German-occupied Albania. Courtesy Cate Lineberry.November 8,...

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James Dawes: Why Do People Commit Atrocities? (INTERVIEW)

A Japanese soldier poses with the head of a Chinese prisoner.The human capacity to injure other people is very great precisely because our capacity to imagine other people is very small.--Elizabeth...

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