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100 years ago, war proved to be a godsend for a president with no tolerance for opposition. We would be wise to heed the lesson.

Comics were able to reflect changing views on the conflict in a way few other popular culture forms could.

The filmmaker wants ‘The Vietnam War’ to unite America. Can anyone do that under Trump?

Were the real prisoners of war the young Americans who never left home?

While the U.S. has expanded its borders of inclusion over time, the borders of whiteness have never fallen. Only a robust black public sphere can change that.

A profile of the founder of American University's new anti-racism center.

How the Earth, Wind & Fire hit "September" came into being, and why it continues to unite the generations on the dance floor.

Blaming “bad dudes”—ignores the role of women in the white nationalist movement.

It’s our democracy’s ultimate weapon for self-defense. But does intense political opposition justify its use?

The Technicolor Online Research Archive has newly digitized documents from 1914 to 1955, chronicling the development of Technicolor film.

We may be entering a post-Pentagon Papers era that shifts the power back to political elites, who are ever more emboldened to go after leakers.

W. E. B. Du Bois may be our keenest critic of Trumpism today.

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

On the war's 50th anniversary, peace activists will be challenging the Pentagon's whitewashed history.

Burns and co-director Lynn Novick take a "many sides" approach to history at a time when "many sides" is a tool of obfuscation.

Eclipse madness is real.

What we can learn from the successes of local activists in 1970.

Read an excerpt from Al Roker's book about the Galveston Hurricane of 1900.

Why hurricane refugees are more likely to come from some countries than others.

How Scott Pruitt misunderstands the primary role of the EPA.

The Fish Wars of the 1960s led to an affirmation of Native American rights.

Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe is taking steps to commemorate enslaved people who worked for his predecessor nearly 200 years ago.

Today's headlines evoke the the racist and hate filled headlines of KKK publications.

When a dam gave way after unprecedented rainfall, it sent a wall of water barreling toward a Pennsylvania town of 30,000 people.

With Donald Trump bringing the Ku Klux Klan back into the spotlight, we must return to William Bradford Huie's 1967 novel.

New Orleans at 300 returns with a story about a monument that was supposed to be erected in the late 1800s, but never happened.

Claims that the Confederacy didn't fight to uphold slavery are disputed by Confederate generals themselves.

In promoting healing instead of a search for truth, “The Vietnam War” offers misleading comforts.

100 years after a riot that left 19 people dead, descendants of the men held responsible are asking for posthumous pardons.

The history of American expansion can be traced through the severed body parts left in its wake.

Because of you, my Civil War lecture is always packed with students raised on your romantic, deeply misleading portrait of the conflict.

The documentary's accommodation of the Lost Cause narrative may have left viewers with a skewed understanding of the conflict.

An interview with the filmmakers.

Louise Mirrer reflects on the history and memory of the Vietnam War and a new exhibit at the New York Historical Society.

The Vietnam War pictures that moved them most.

How the scholarship has changed.

There are fewer checks in the system than you might think.

We need a radical solution to avert the disintegration of our political system.

What anti-Trump protesters can learn from the successes, and mistakes, of the anti-Vietnam War movement.

How Edith Windsor fell in love, got married, and won a landmark case for gay marriage.

Can the history of hurricanes prove the existence of climate change?

How the April 8, 1966, cover of TIME set off a firestorm.

In 1966, Atlanta Project members wrote a paper on the future of white liberals in the civil rights movement.

Building on vulnerable coastlines isn't about ignorance or hubris — it's about profit.

Empty pedestals can offer the same lessons about racism and war that the statues do.

The president's stand on the Confederate hero represents the kind of moral relativism that conservatives usually decry.

A group of historians takes a stand for the removal of the Confederate emblem from their state's flag.

How Alex Tizon’s essay echoes a trope with deep roots in American history

Fast food did not just find its way to low-income neighborhoods. It was brought there by the federal government.

Was the white-nationalist march better understood as a departure from America’s traditional values, or viewed in the context of its history?