The history behind current events.

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• Dallas Through the Looking Glass The plot to link JFK's death and Watergate.
  David Greenberg Nov. 20, 2003
  
• Nixon the Populist The Democratic presidential candidates are falling into the trap Nixon set 50 years ago.
  David Greenberg Oct. 2, 2003
  
• Cincinnatus for President Listen up, Wesley Clark! Here's how generals get elected president.
  David Greenberg Sept. 16, 2003
  
• Condi's Phony History Sorry, Dr. Rice, postwar Germany was nothing like Iraq.
  Daniel Benjamin Aug. 29, 2003
  
• Where Have All the Looters Gone? Why there wasn't more crime during the blackout.
  David Greenberg Aug. 15, 2003
  
• The Cuban Missile Tape Crisis Just how helpful are the White House recordings?
  David Greenberg July 22, 2003
  
• Notes From the Underground A documentary about the Weathermen shows how far we've come since the '60s.
  David Greenberg June 6, 2003
  
• Adolf's Alive! Saddam Hussein and the persistent myth of Hitler's survival.
  David Greenberg June 2, 2003
  
• America's Forgotten Empire How 50 years of imperialism in the Philippines changed the United States—and my family.
  Mark Lewis May 2, 2003
  
• The POW in the American Imagination Why we're obsessed with American soldiers captured by the enemy.
  David Greenberg April 1, 2003
  
• Advise and Dissent How anti-war protest movements have made the U.S. stronger.
  David Greenberg March 26, 2003
  
• Fallout Can Be Fun How the Cold War civil-defense programs became farce.
  David Greenberg Feb. 20, 2003
  
• Rough Draft The revive-conscription movement has history against it.
  David Greenberg Jan. 23, 2003