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Stop Eulogizing Gore Vidal: He Was a Racist and an Elitist
David Greenberg
Aug 02, 2012
11:41 AM
What Santorum Misunderstands About Kennedy’s 1960 Speech on Religious Freedom
David Greenberg
Feb 27, 2012
12:39 PM
Why Are Republicans Suddenly So Obsessed With Calvin Coolidge?
David Greenberg
Nov 10, 2011
12:37 PM
John Morton Blum: The Death of a Legendary Historian
David Greenberg
Oct 21, 2011
12:05 PM
Do Conservatives Who Attack the New Deal Actually Know What America Gained From It?
Michael Hiltzik
Oct 13, 2011
10:34 AM
The Stranger-Than-Fiction History of the Civil-Rights Era’s Most Famous Photograph
David Margolick
Oct 11, 2011
2:12 PM
Yale anti-Semitism controversy: How did a concern with anti-Semitism come to be seen as the province of the right?
David Greenberg
July 01, 2011
4:56 PM
Democracy by Henry Adams: why it’s the best anonymous Washington novel.
David Greenberg
April 20, 2011
2:28 PM
Civil War anniversary: 1861 author Adam Goodheart discusses an amazing new exhibition of soldier portraits. (PHOTOS)
David Plotz
April 15, 2011
7:09 AM
Unsolved codes and ciphers from across the ages.
Elizabeth Weingarten
April 08, 2011
11:29 AM
Tsunamis in the United States have hit Crescent City, Calif., 31 times since 1933.
Timothy Noah
March 11, 2011
12:27 PM
The great migration from black to white: an overlooked chapter in the history of African-Americans.
Daniel J. Sharfstein
Feb 22, 2011
7:20 AM
Eisenhower’s “military-industrial complex”: His farewell address has been completely misunderstood.
David Greenberg
Jan 14, 2011
6:57 AM
Jared Loughner: Of course his actions were politically motivated.
David Greenberg
Jan 10, 2011
6:01 PM
The real purpose of the Espionage Act.
David Greenberg
Dec 27, 2010
8:47 AM
Obama needs a little of the Truman touch.
David Greenberg
Nov 19, 2010
7:16 AM
What the new Woodrow Wilson haters don’t understand.
David Greenberg
Oct 22, 2010
7:12 AM
Did JFK really win because he looked better on television?
David Greenberg
Sept 24, 2010
7:16 AM
How Wilson and Roosevelt tried to roll back the power of corporations.
David Greenberg
July 15, 2010
1:35 PM
Two history professors read Elena Kagan’s undergraduate thesis.
David Greenberg and Tony Michels
May 21, 2010
5:54 PM