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How the U.S. Departure From Afghanistan Could Echo Kissinger's Moves in Vietnam

The way America is ending its War in Afghanistan is comparable to how it pulled out of the conflict in Vietnam.

by David E. Kaiser via TIME on February 6, 2019

Two men and a boy in GAR uniforms

The Grave and the Gay: The Civil War on the Gilded Age Lecture Circuit

In the years after the Civil War, lecturers like E. L. Allen regaled audiences with heartwarming and dramatic tales of battle.

by James Marten via Muster on December 28, 2018

Atlanta's Famed Cyclorama Mural Will Tell the Truth About the Civil War Once Again

One of the war's greatest battles was fought again and again on a spectacular canvas nearly 400 feet long.

by Jack Hitt via Smithsonian on December 1, 2018

A Hundred Years After the Armistice

If you think the First World War began senselessly, consider how it ended.

by Adam Hochschild via The New Yorker on October 28, 2018

James Longstreet's daughter visits his statue at Gettysburg.

The Missing Statues That Expose the Truth About Confederate Monuments

Why Confederacy supporters erased the legacy of one its most accomplished soldiers.

by Kevin Waite via Made By History on August 29, 2018

How a Tiny Cape Cod Town Survived World War I’s Only Attack on American Soil

A century ago, a German U-boat fired at five vessels and a Massachusetts beach before slinking back out to sea.

by Jake Klim via Smithsonian on July 19, 2018

What Does It Mean to Give David Petraeus the Floor?

Some historians worry that giving the former general an invitation to keynote means giving him a pulpit.

by Gunar Olsen via The Nation on July 5, 2018

The Fading Battlefields of World War I

A collection of photographs that show nature retaking the battle-ravaged land along the Great War's Western Front.

by Alan Taylor via The Atlantic on May 28, 2018

Iraq, 15 Years Later

Fifteen years after the U.S. invasion, there’s no satisfying answer to the question: What were we doing in Iraq anyway?

by Theodore R. Johnson III via The Atlantic on March 20, 2018

Confronting the Legacy of the Civil War: The Forgotten Front

One thing united the warring factions of the civil war: the doctrine of white supremacy and violence against Indians.

by George Black via The Nation on October 26, 2017

The South Rises Yet Again, This Time on HBO

In a world where Confederate flags continue to fly, it is hard not to cry “enough” at this continued emphasis on all-things-Confederate.

by Nina Silber via Muster on July 31, 2017

How a Stroke of the Pen Changed the Army Forever

The most important civil rights achievement didn't come from Congress or the Court. It came from Harry Truman.

by Cornelius L. Bynum via Made By History on July 26, 2017

Modern Wars Are a Nightmare for the Army's Official Historians

The researchers compiling the U.S. Army’s accounts of Iraq and Afghanistan have an unprecedented volume of material to sort.

by Adin Dobkin via The Atlantic on June 14, 2017

At the Start of the Civil War, Few Union Army Surgeons Had Ever Treated a Gunshot Wound

An exercise in understatement that would be funny if it weren't so tragic.

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on July 6, 2016

A Brief History of the Assault Rifle

The genealogy of a killing machine.

by Michael Shurkin via The Atlantic on June 30, 2016

The Battle Ship in Union Square

In 1917, the U.S. Navy built a full-size battleship in the heart of New York City.

by Amanda Uren via Mashable on April 30, 2015

'The Greatest Catastrophe the World Has Seen'

Considering six books on the outbreak of World War I and its place in history.

by R. J. W. Evans via New York Review of Books on February 6, 2014

150 Years of Misunderstanding the Civil War

As the 150th of the Battle of Gettysburg approaches, it's time to question the popular account of a war that tore apart the nation.

by Tony Horwitz via The Atlantic on June 19, 2013

Why Would Anyone Collect Nazi?

Neo-Nazis aren't the only ones collecting Nazi memorabilia.

by Ben Marks via Collectors Weekly on June 23, 2011

Boxes in the University of Illinois Archives

Historians Killing History

The driving question of scholarship should be “what is the evidence for your argument?” Instead, it has become “whose side are you on?”

by Katherine C. Epstein via Liberties Journal on October 1, 2024

Collage of a flag, a philosopher, hands in prayer, and a Gothic building.

Learning Civics from History

Civic thought and leadership institutes will thrive if they promote strong scholarship and courses in traditional fields the mainstream academy slights.

by James Hankins via Law & Liberty on September 11, 2024

A parade in Rio de Janeiro consisting of Brazilian Expeditionary Force soldiers and American 10th Mountain Division soldiers.

Skis, Samba, and Smoking Snakes: An Unlikely World War II Partnership

What happened when glacier-goggled American ski troops and samba-loving Brazilian soldiers fought side-by-side halfway across the world?

by Carson Teuscher via Origins on January 13, 2024

Borderland Stories

What we remember when we remember the Alamo.

by Ed Ayers on November 13, 2023

Shelby Foote with a drawing of a Civil War battle superimposed over him.

The South’s Jewish Proust

Shelby Foote, failed novelist and closeted member of the Tribe, turned the Civil War into a masterpiece of American literature.

by Blake Smith via Tablet on September 6, 2023

Protestors on the streets during the Algerian War.

The Counterinsurgent Imagination

A new book examines military manuals as a genre to understand what armed counter-revolutionaries think of as the right way to do what they do.

by Tom Furse, Joseph Mackay via Journal of the History of Ideas Blog on January 6, 2023

What AHA President James Sweet Got Wrong—And Right

Attacking presentism as a mindset of younger scholars doesn’t solve any of the historical profession's problems.

by Jonathan W. Wilson via Clio and the Contemporary on November 30, 2022

Painting of George Washington in New York, 1783, surrounded by a crowd.

The Many American Revolutions

Woody Holton’s "Liberty is Sweet" charts not only the contest with Great Britain over “home rule” but also the internal struggle over who should rule at home.

by Eric Foner via The Nation on April 4, 2022

‘Flight of Lord Dunmore’; postcard, 1907.

The Paradox of the American Revolution

Recent books by Woody Holton and Alan Taylor offer fresh perspectives on early US history but overstate the importance of white supremacy as its driving force.

by Sean Wilentz via New York Review of Books on December 24, 2021

An artist's interpretation of Phil Collins at the Battle of the Alamo.

The Next Battle of the Alamo!

Is Phil Collins's legendary collection everything it's cracked up to be?

by Chris Tomlinson, Jason Stanford, Bryan Burrough via Texas Monthly on May 19, 2021

Artist's rendering of the proposed Disney's America theme park in Prince William County, Virginia.

Disney and Battlefields: A Tale of Two Continents

The conflict between commercialization and historic preservation.

by Niels Eichhorn via Muster on April 20, 2021

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