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August 10, 2014
Susan Schulten
The Story Behind the Ancient Map That Invented Red and Blue States
The country was just as polarized 125 years ago—except the colors were upside down
August 5, 2014
Philip A. Mackowiak
What Andrew Wyeth Could Teach Modern Doctors About Practicing Medicine
The art of medicine is not so far from art
July 30, 2014
Adam Kirsch
Ira Glass Is a Philistine for Saying Shakespeare Sucks, But He's in Good Company
Why writers have spent centuries attacking the Bard
July 16, 2014
Julia Ioffe
Why the Doom and Gloom, America?
Today’s crises are no worse than many in U.S. history
July 8, 2014
Michael Kazin
Woodrow Wilson's Only Good Choice in WWI Was to Avoid It Altogether
July 8, 2014
John M. Cooper
A Victorious Germany in WWI Would Have Prevented the Nazis—But It May Have Been Nearly as Bad
July 7, 2014
John M. Cooper
Why Woodrow Wilson Was Right to Bet on World War I
July 4, 2014
Brook Wilensky-Lanford
The Dangerous Lies We Tell About America’s Founding
Myths may comfort us, but facts are our best weapon against Tea Party perversions
July 4, 2014
Simon Heffer
Historians Fought About World War I the Moment It Began. They're Still Fighting.
June 28, 2014
Lynn Hunt
Louis XVI Wasn't Killed by Ideas
This is what happens when you ignore the role of politics in intellectual history
June 27, 2014
John B. Judis
The Middle East That France and Britain Drew Is Finally Unravelling
And there's very little the U.S. can do to stop it
June 20, 2014
Joanna Bourke
The History of Pain Is Racist, Sexist, and Classist
June 11, 2014
Simon Schama
This Is the Team That Actually Invented Total Football
They did it in stadium known as Wankdorf (some things a nine-year-old doesn't forget)
June 9, 2014
Susan Schulten
This 19th Century Map Could Have Transformed the West
Too bad Congress didn't listen
June 3, 2014
Yelena Akhtiorskaya
History Turned the Romanov Sisters Into a Fairy Tale. Here's What They Were Really Like.
May 21, 2014
Susan Schulten
World War II Led to a Revolution in Cartography. These Amazing Maps Are Its Legacy.
May 17, 2014
Nina Caplan
How Gin Made British Colonialism Possible
May 11, 2014
Timothy Snyder
The Battle in Ukraine Means Everything
Fascism returns to the continent it once destroyed
May 9, 2014
Jason Walsh
Northern Ireland's Troubles Are Over. But That Doesn't Mean I Am at Peace.
Gerry Adams's arrest awakens a journalist's awful childhood memories
April 26, 2014
Abbas Milani
Thomas Jefferson Was a Muslim
A candidate was accused of being a closet Muslim. In the 18th century, not the 21st.

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