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April 20, 2016
Clio Chang
6 reasons Harriet Tubman deserves to be on the $20 bill.
February 29, 2016
Colette Shade
When a State Song Is a Confederate Battle Cry
Critics say “Maryland, My Maryland" is a disgrace. The governor disagrees.
December 18, 2015
Jeet Heer
Ken Burns’s Star Wars would be Empire apologia.
December 17, 2015
Suzy Khimm
Robert E. Lee will no longer be presiding over traffic in New Orleans.
November 26, 2015
Jeet Heer
What Thanksgiving Says About America
A comparison with Canada's Thanksgiving reveals the national traits embedded in this secular holiday.
November 10, 2015
Greg Bailey
Why Does This Georgia Town Honor One of America's Worst War Criminals?
The monument to Confederate officer Henry Wirz is down the road from the graveyard of his many victims
April 7, 2015
Brian Beutler
Southerners Shouldn't Take Attacks on the Confederacy Personally
And they should embrace the idea of celebrating the country's reunion
April 6, 2015
Brian Beutler
Make the Confederacy’s Defeat a National Holiday
150 years ago this week, Robert E. Lee surrendered to the Union. Let's celebrate it—every year.
March 23, 2015
Cristian Farias
Was Texas Wrong to Reject a Specialty License Plate Bearing a Confederate Flag?
July 22, 2014
Zalmay Khalilzad, Kenneth M. Pollack
How to Save Iraq
This is the best, or the least bad, solution to the current crisis
June 24, 2014
Michael Knights
Saddam Hussein's Faithful Friend, the King of Clubs, Might Be the Key to Saving Iraq
Assuming, that is, the mysterious Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri is even still alive
June 13, 2014
Isaac Chotiner
Obama Is Wrong. Iraq's Problems Are Ours, Too.
May 10, 2014
Steven Hahn
The Emancipationist Century
David Brion Davis's trilogy was fifty years in the making, and the final volume was worth the wait
February 11, 2014
Paul Berman
The True Story of America's First Black Female Slave Novelist
The woman behind 'The Bondwoman's Narrative'
July 25, 2013
Frank O'Hara
The Poetry of Frank O’Hara
Two poems originally published in the New Republic
August 24, 2011
Paul Berman
Do Ideas Matter?
June 30, 2011
Drew Gilpin Faust
Telling War Stories
October 16, 2010
Drew Gilpin Faust
Out of the Margins
March 18, 2009
John Summers
Gettysburg Regress
How the government is ruining America's most famous battlefield.
May 2, 2005
David A. Bell
The Bookless Future

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