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Back to SearchSaving Napoleon
Audio excerpts of Napoleon courtesy Sony Pictures and Apple Original Films.
Many historians have skewered Ridley Scott's Napoleon for inaccuracies an…
2 years, 5 months ago
Recovering Rustin
Bayard Rustin was born a Quaker in Pennsylvania and became an advocate of non-violent resistance in the civil rights movement. He was openly gay at a…
2 years, 5 months ago
Ordinary Men / Extraordinary Crimes
The Israel-Hamas war has provoked an angry, bitter debate over the meaning of genocide as partisans on both sides of the conflict invoke the memory o…
2 years, 5 months ago
From Beirut to Gaza City
Urban warfare, an appalling civilian death toll, and international outcry: Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza shares parallels with its failed invasi…
2 years, 5 months ago
Diplomat / Intellectual / War Criminal?
The death of Henry Kissinger at 100 reignited the debate over the foreign policy record of a man who embodied U.S. power and influence. Revered or de…
2 years, 6 months ago
What If? Slavery Without the Civil War
This is the second episode in an occasional series examining major counterfactual scenarios in history. The first, published in September, asked whet…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Cold War Liberals
If the era of Trump has brought on a crisis of liberalism, liberals have failed to fully reckon with their "failure to establish a liberal society at…
2 years, 6 months ago
HAIH Live! The Kennedy Coup
This conversation with University of Virginia Miller Center historian Ken Hughes aired on C-SPAN's American History TV on Nov. 25. Hughes discusses h…
2 years, 6 months ago
Turkey on Thanksgiving
Millions of Americans devour roasted turkey for their Thanksgiving dinner. It's the traditional centerpiece of this quintessential American feast. Bu…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Question of Genocide
Partisans and activists on either side of the Israel-Hamas war are lobbing allegations of genocide against the other. Some respected legal scholars a…
2 years, 6 months ago