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A group of South Korean refugees during the Korean War.

The Korean War Atrocities No One Wants to Talk About

For decades they covered up the U.S. massacre of civilians at No Gun Ri and elsewhere. This is why we never learn our lessons.
by Jim Bovard via The American Conservative on June 26, 2020

These Photos Capture the Lives of African American Soldiers Who Served During World War II

Pittsburgh photographer Teenie Harris focused on the patriotism of men who fought for the country abroad while being discriminated against at home.
by Dominique Luster via Smithsonian on May 22, 2020

How Carter's '80 SOTU Unleashed America's 'World Police'

Forty years ago he announced a new American doctrine of aggressive Middle East interventionism that never went away.
by Edward D. Change via The American Conservative on February 4, 2020

‘1917’ and the Trouble With War Movies

"Every film about war ends up being pro-war," Francois Truffaut once said.
by Adam Nayman via The Ringer on January 29, 2020

Whose Boots on the Ground

We invest a great deal of collective energy in commemorating our war dead. But do we remember them?
by Kiley Bense via Longreads on November 7, 2019

9/11 Is History Now. Here's How American Kids Are Learning About It in Class

"I get teary-eyed with my students."
by Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on September 10, 2019
An Afghan and a US soldier on a joint patrol.

Back to the Long War: Helmand Province Eight Years Later

Hundreds of Marines lost their lives in Helmand. Former Marine Christopher Jones returns to see what those losses achieved.
by Christopher Jones via Pacific Standard on June 6, 2019

When Presidents Intervene on Behalf of War Criminals

Amid reports that Trump may pardon accused or convicted war criminals, it's worth remembering Nixon's response to the My Lai Massacre.
by Mikhaila Fogel via Lawfare on May 27, 2019

Joe Biden's Audacity of Grief

On the mournful threads connecting his half-century in politics.
by George Blaustein via The New Republic on May 16, 2019

Redactions: The Declassified File

Mueller report censorship raises the question: what’s the government hiding?
by Tom Blanton, Malcolm Byrne, Lauren Harper via National Security Archive on April 18, 2019

Geopolitics for the Left

Getting out from under the "liberal international order."
by Ted Fertik via n+1 on March 11, 2019

How the United States Reinvented Empire

Americans tend to see their country as a nation-state, not an imperial power.
by Patrick Iber via The New Republic on February 12, 2019

It Will Take More Than Congress to Cure America’s War Addiction

All that talk about "reclaiming" congressional war powers? Historically, Congress has applauded presidential wars.
by Gunar Olsen via The New Republic on February 6, 2019

Imperial Exceptionalism

Is it time for an end to American imperialism? Two authors re-examine American intervention overseas.
by Jackson Lears via New York Review of Books on January 29, 2019

The World Through the Eyes of the US

The countries that have preoccupied Americans since 1900.
by Russell Goldenberg via The Pudding on December 15, 2018

When the World Tried to Outlaw War

What, if anything, can we learn from the 1928 Paris Peace Pact?
by Stephen Wertheim via The Nation on November 8, 2018

Remembrance of War as Warning

Might a new approach to war memorials keep us out of future unnecessary wars?
by Christopher Preble via War on the Rocks on August 13, 2018
Identification documents and photo of Hans Speier on the cover of "Democracy in Exile."

Killing Democracy to Save It

How an idealistic defense intellectual concluded that democracy is often its own worst enemy.
by John Ganz via Los Angeles Review of Books on July 6, 2018
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Forget About It

Warnings against "normalizing" outrageous political acts misstate the problem. It’s never the immediate present that gets normalized — it’s the not-so-distant past.
by Corey Robin via Harper’s on April 1, 2018

The 'Ground Zero Mosque' Controversy Was a Harbinger of Our Times

A preview of Trumpism in 2010 protests against a proposed mosque in lower Manhattan.
by Jason Tebbe via Tropics of Meta on March 21, 2018

The World the Cold War Built

A new book says the conflict began in the late 19th century and subsumed even World War II as our defining event.
by Leon Hadar via The American Conservative on January 31, 2018

Same As It Ever Was: Orientalism Forty Years Later

On Edward Said, othering, and the depictions of Arabs in America.
by Philip Metres via Literary Hub on January 23, 2018
Drawing of soldiers in combat uniforms.

The Good War

How America’s infatuation with World War II has eroded our conscience.
by Mike Dawson via The Nib on January 10, 2018
Title card for Burns and Novick's Vietnam War documentary.

Making History Safe Again: What Ken Burns Gets Wrong About Vietnam

Vietnam was not a "tragic misunderstanding" but a campaign of "imperial aggression."
by Christian G. Appy, Patrick Lawrence via Salon on October 15, 2017
Soldiers exiting a helicopter in Vietnam, 1966.
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Why Americans Still Can’t Move Past Vietnam

Not only can we not shake the memories of Vietnam, but they still shape our foreign policy debates.
by David Kieran via Made By History on October 10, 2017
Young men show a reporter how to make molotov cocktails in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, in July 1966. (Bill Ray/Life Picture Collection/Getty Images)

One of America's Smartest Magazines Published a Molotov Cocktail How-To in 1967

A riot represents people making history.
by Nina Renata Aron via Timeline on September 23, 2017
Demonstrators marching with a sign advocating a free Palestine and an end to U.S. aid to Israel.
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Why Democrats are Abandoning Israel

Democrats like Lyndon Johnson staunchly supported Israel. Now the party is leaving that legacy behind.
by KC Johnson via Made By History on August 18, 2017
Barbara Lee speaking at a House of Representatives podium.

The Origin of Endless War

On Barbara Lee and the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force.
by Richard Beck via n+1 on August 11, 2017
Soldiers pose with a human skull.

The Violence Is the Victory

The history of American expansion can be traced through the severed body parts left in its wake.
by Jessie Kindig via n+1 on May 31, 2017

When Pat Buchanan Tried To Make America Great Again

If you're wondering how Trump happened, all you have to do is let Pat Buchanan beguile you with a history no one else can tell.
by Sam Tanenhaus via Esquire on April 5, 2017
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