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New York City, the Perfect Setting for a Fictional Cold War Strike

On Collier’s 1950 cover story, “Hiroshima, USA: Can Anything Be Done About It?”

by Sara Blair via Literary Hub on June 13, 2018

Putin and Trump.

The Secret Life of Statutes: A Century of the Trading with the Enemy Act

What began as an effort to define and punish trading with the enemy has transformed into economic warfare.

by Benjamin Coates via Modern American History on May 16, 2018

Timothy Snyder’s Bleak Vision

"The Road to Unfreedom," Timothy Snyder's book on Russian influence around the world, is built on contradiction and conspiracy.

by Sophie Pinkham via The Nation on May 3, 2018

Atomic Bonds

What was J. Robert Oppenheimer doing with a book about science in early America?

by Nadine Zimmerli via Uncommon Sense on May 3, 2018

A Tale of Two Hiroshimas

Two of the earliest films to depict the bombing of Hiroshima show how politics shapes national mourning.

by Kazu Watanabe via The Current on May 3, 2018

Svetlana Stalin being photographed

My Secret Summer With Stalin’s Daughter

In 1967, I was in the middle of one of the world’s buzziest stories.

by Grace Kennan Warnecke via Politico Magazine on April 29, 2018

How a Soviet A-Bomb Test Led the U.S. Into Climate Science

The untold story of a failed Russian geoengineering scheme, panic in the Pentagon, and a Nixon-era effort to study global cooling.

by Sharon Weinberger via UnDark on April 20, 2018

The April 1966 cover of “Ramparts," featuring a caricature of Madame Nhu dressed as a Michigan State University cheerleader

The University That Launched a CIA Front Operation in Vietnam

A Vietnamese politician and an American academic led Michigan State University into a nation-building experiment and pulled America deeper into war.

by Eric Scigliano via Politico Magazine on March 25, 2018

Our Nukes, Ourselves

Nuclear heritage and nuclear stewardship in a quiet desert town.

by Kelsey D. Atherton via The New Inquiry on March 21, 2018

Jordan Peterson & Fascist Mysticism

The bestselling guru's ancient wisdom is unmistakably modern – a disturbing symptom of the social malaise he sets out to cure.

by Pankaj Mishra via New York Review of Books on March 19, 2018

Who Does She Stand For?

As the Statue of Liberty turned 100, our long battle over immigration was having its moment in Reagan’s America.

by Paul A. Kramer via Slate on March 5, 2018

Billy Graham, ‘America’s Pastor’?

He became known as an apolitical preacher. But Graham started out as an ardent conservative.

by Kevin M. Kruse via Made by History on February 22, 2018

Why Billy Graham Was Determined to Globalize Evangelicalism

Recognizing that Americans are not the future of his religion, the late preacher embraced a global world.

by Melani McAlister via The Atlantic on February 21, 2018

Paul Manafort, American Hustler

Before Trump, one lobbyist’s pursuit of foreign cash and shady deals laid the groundwork for Washington’s corruption.

by Franklin Foer via The Atlantic on January 28, 2018

Science for the People at 2017’s March for Science.

Why a Radical 1970s Science Group Is More Relevant Than Ever

A second life for an organization of scientists who questioned how their work was being used.

by Sarah Laskow via Atlas Obscura on January 22, 2018

Donald Trump in the Oval Office, with a portrait of Andrew Jackson in the background.

The Man Who Put Andrew Jackson in Trump’s Oval Office

Historian Walter Russell Mead has become the favorite Trump whisperer for everyone from Steve Bannon to Tom Cotton.

by Susan B. Glasser via Politico Magazine on January 22, 2018

1968’s Chaos: The Assassinations, Riots and Protests that Defined Our World

On the 50th anniversary of that extraordinary year, historians consider 1968’s meaning and global context.

by Michael S. Rosenwald via Washington Post on January 1, 2018

The Triumph and Near-Tragedy of the First Moon Landing

Across the cislunar blackness, we set sail for a landing that almost didn't happen.

by Eric Berger via Ars Technica on December 19, 2017

For Republicans, an Unpopular Tax Cut May Be Better Than Nothing – But Still Not Enough

In 1948, the GOP passed the third biggest tax cut in U.S. history. In the next election, they learned the devil is in the details.

by Joseph J. Thorndike via Tax Analysts on November 30, 2017

Daniel Ellsberg

Daniel Ellsberg Is Still Thinking About the Papers He Didn’t Get to Leak

The man who leaked the Pentagon Papers is back with a new book, The Doomsday Machine.

by Andrew Rice via Intelligencer on November 28, 2017

The Other End of the Telescope

Considering astronomy's history from the shadow of the Arecibo Observatory reveals the discipline's intimate ties to imperialism.

by David Singerman on November 24, 2017

family Thanksgiving meal

The Dark and Divisive History of America’s Thanksgiving Hymn

How a beloved song with origins in 16th-century Europe captures both a holiday's spirit of unity and a country's legacy of exclusion.

by Neil J. Young via The Atlantic on November 23, 2017

A Birthday Party for This Patsy?

Every year, a group in New Orleans gets together to celebrate the birthday of Lee Harvey Oswald, who they believe was framed.

by Rien Fell via The Bitter Southerner on November 9, 2017

How John Wayne Became a Hollow Masculine Icon

The actor’s persona was inextricable from the toxic culture of Cold War machismo.

by Stephen Metcalf via The Atlantic on November 9, 2017

Title card for Burns and Novick's Vietnam War documentary.

Making History Safe Again: What Ken Burns Gets Wrong About Vietnam

Vietnam was not a "tragic misunderstanding" but a campaign of "imperial aggression."

by Christian G. Appy, Patrick Lawrence via Salon on October 15, 2017

Marx in the United States

A conversation with the author of a forthcoming book about the twists and turns of Marx's legacy in America.

by Andrew Hartman, Magnus Møller Ziegler, Tobias Dias via U.S. Intellectual History Blog on October 4, 2017

Napalm explosion in Vietnam.

Episode-by-Episode Reviews: "The Vietnam War"

Watching Ken Burns' latest epic with a historian who has written extensively about the war.

by Christian G. Appy via Process: A Blog for American History on September 18, 2017

Two American soldiers in Pleiku, South Vietnam, home to an American airbase in May 1967.

Studying the Vietnam War

How the scholarship has changed.

by Mark Atwood Lawrence via Humanities on September 16, 2017

Who is the Enemy Here?

The Vietnam War pictures that moved them most.

by Alice Gabriner via Made By History on September 15, 2017

Richard Nixon

The Presidency Never Recovered After Vietnam

The war opened the credibility gap. What we’ve learned since has only widened it.

by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick via The Atlantic on September 12, 2017

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