military history

Long before Greenland’s shifting ice threatened sea level rise, it doomed one of the military’s most audacious Cold War projects.

On the value of the discipline and its applications.

Why and how did D-Day succeed? The question has given postwar historians no peace.

A work of millennial scope by a self-taught African-American historian.

Why is Shelby Foote's Civil War subject to so much contemporary debate?

Today, the military is perhaps the largest integrated institution in the US. But how it came to be this way reveals a history of racism and resistance.

The historical record reveals the real circumstances that led to the improbable capture of eleven British ships.

The West is using the wrong analogy for Russia’s invasion—and worsening the outcome.

When Charles Sumner died in 1874, a bill he had sponsored two years earlier threatened to overshadow his legacy.

An interview with Woody Holton on his new book, "Liberty is Sweet."

Why has a relatively conventional history of the War of Independence drawn such an outraged response?

Historian Samuel Moyn contends that efforts to conduct war humanely have only perpetuated it. But the solution must lie in politics, not a sacrifice of human rights.

Yale's John Fabian Witt pens a review of Samuel Moyn's new book, Humane.

Hitchcock and Herwig discuss their findings on the teaching of war in higher education.

During the war in Vietnam, there was a notorious American prison on the outskirts of Saigon: a prison for American soldiers.

Malcolm Gladwell’s apologia for American butchery.

A new biography of William Tecumseh Sherman questions his reputation as the brutal "prophet of total war."

Julia Gaffield reviews two books that discuss the transatlantic slave trade.

White women were as married to the war as their Confederate menfolk.

157 years after the famous battle, Gettysburg endured another invasion.