Daniel Immerwahr

“The Golden Girls” reframed senior life as being about socializing and sex. But did the cultural narrative of advanced age as continued youth go too far?

Anti-Trump Republicans revere Ronald Reagan as Trump’s opposite—yet in critical ways Reagan may have been his forerunner.

We’ve long viewed them as liberty-loving rebels. But it’s time to take off the eye patch.

Its agents are often depicted as malevolent puppet masters—or as bumbling idiots. The truth is even less comforting.

Experts have warned that utterly realistic A.I.-generated videos might wreak havoc through deception. What’s happened is troubling in a different way.

Its inhabitants are as much creatures of state power and industrial capitalism as their city-dwelling counterparts.

Behind the Oklahoma City bombing and even the January 6th attack was a military-style assault in Texas that galvanized the far right.

Americans disparaged the British as arsonists. But the rebels fought with fire too.

How best to tell the story of oppressed peoples? By chronicling the hardships they’ve faced? Or by highlighting their triumphs over adversity?

A new history makes a case for the world-ordering power of wheat.

On Lewis Mumford, Herman Melville, and the gentle art of looking back in time.

Why our nuclear fears faded – and why that’s dangerous.

A new book argues that the conflict was a battle for empire.

Fewer fires are burning worldwide than at any time since antiquity. But in banishing fire from sight, we have made its dangers stranger and less predictable.

After World War II, American power on the world stage was defined by internationalism and cooperation.

More than iron, stone, or oil, wood explains human history.

A new history shows how the glut of US military bases abroad has led to a constant state of military conflict.

When Nicholson Baker searched for the truth about biological weapons, he found a fog of redaction.

Jill Lepore’s awkward embrace of the nation.

On the erasure of American "territories" from US history.

“How to Hide an Empire,” explores America far beyond the borders of the Lower 48.

The 45 years of peace between the Cold War superpowers were 45 years of killing for much of the rest of the world.

Marvel's heroes are back again, but with little of the subversive aura that once surrounded them.

Why the 1969 moon landing signaled the end of the massive American empire of the 20th century.