Happy Captive Nations Week!
It’s that time of year when we are supposed to celebrate one of the weirdest artifacts of the Cold War.
“A Shocking Sabbath Carnival of Death”James Gordon Bennett Jr.’s most eccentric public service announcement.
The Day We Didn’t Invade NormandyOn June 3, 1944, American radio broadcasters announced that D-Day had begun. Whoops.
Sergeant StubbyAmerica’s original dog of war fought bravely on the Western Front—then helped the nation forget the Great War’s terrible human toll.
The Education of Laura BridgmanShe was Helen Keller before Helen Keller. Then her mentor abandoned their studies.
“A Gun to the Heart of the City”Fifty years ago today, rogue civil rights activists tried to shut down the New York World’s Fair.
The Case of the Closely Watched CourtesansThe French police obsessively tracked the kept women of 18th-century Paris. Why?
The Massive Liberal Failure on RacePart III: The Civil Rights movement ignored one very important, very difficult question. It’s time to answer it.
Snapshots of HistoryWildly popular accounts like @HistoryInPics are bad for history, bad for Twitter, and bad for you.
Forgetting OdessaThe people of this great Ukrainian port city have a long record of getting their history wrong. Sometimes, that isn’t a bad thing.
The Birth of the Pont NeufHow a simple bridge made Paris the world’s first modern tourist destination.
“I Would Have Followed Them Into Battle”Female Civil War re-enactors march proudly onto the battlefields where their forerunners disguised themselves to fight.
The Unknown SoldiersMax Brooks on his graphic novel about the Harlem Hellfighters—one of the most successful and least celebrated regiments to ever fight for America.
The Massive Liberal Failure on RacePart 2: Affirmative action doesn’t work. It never did. It’s time for a new solution.
The Massive Liberal Failure on RacePart 1: How the left’s embrace of busing hurt the cause of integration.
The Welfare QueenIn the 1970s, Ronald Reagan villainized a Chicago woman for bilking the government. Her other sins—including possible kidnappings and murders—were far worse.
The Drones of the Civil WarMeet the hot air balloonist who convinced Lincoln to use aerial reconnaissance.
