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The U.S. Representative Who Tried to Outlaw War

Jeanette Rankin was the first woman to become a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. And she once tried to outlaw war.

by Erin Blakemore, Harriet Hyman Alonso via JSTOR Daily on April 2, 2017

Bright apocalyptic explosion over a city.

Is 2016 the Worst Year in History?

Is 2016 worse than 1348? And 1836? And 1919?

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on July 22, 2016

Bombing Nagasaki: The Scrapbook

A "yearbook" documents the U.S. military occupation of Nagasaki in the aftermath of the atomic bomb.

by Clark Parker via The Tokyo Files Archives on May 2, 2016

Engraving of Hawaiian high chief Ka‘iana

When Hawaii Was Ruled by Shark-Like Gods

19th century Hawai‘i attracted traders, entrepreneurs, and capitalists, who displaced, a flourishing and elaborate culture.

by Patrick Vinton Kirch via New York Review of Books on December 3, 2015

Pilgrim Thanksgiving

Which Thanksgiving?

The forgotten history of Thanksgiving.

by Karl Jacoby via Los Angeles Times on November 26, 2008

The Debate Over War Powers

Two legal scholars make the case that President Bush must seek congressional authorization before initiating a preemptive military strike on Iraq.

by Mark R. Shulman, Lawrence J. Lee via American Bar Association on January 1, 2003

A photograph of Henry A. Crabb.

Henry A. Crabb, Filibuster, and the San Diego Herald

A Californian politician's disastrous expedition to seize Mexican land, and how newspapers spun the story.

by Diana Lindsay via San Diego History Center on January 1, 1973

Donald Trump shaking hands with Benjamin Netanyahu.

America’s Ties to Israel Might Lead It to War With Iran

Donald Trump is once again threatening war with Iran just six months after bombing the Islamic Republic in June.

by Arron Reza Merat via Jacobin on January 4, 2026

Ken Burns

What’s Wrong with The American Revolution by Ken Burns

Ken Burns’s latest PBS series is long on muskets and bayonets, but the history of the American Revolution remains strangely understated.

by Jack Rakove via Washington Monthly on December 18, 2025

Firefighters in the rubble of the World Trade Center.

Honest Truths From Wrongful Deaths

Left-wing intellectuals' early responses to the 9/11 terror attacks.

by Jeremy Varon via Public Seminar on December 3, 2025

Murray Rothbard

It Has Always Been About Foreign Policy

Movement conservatism’s excommunications have always centered on one set of issues.

by David Brady via The American Conservative on November 30, 2025

"Battle of Manila Bay" painting by James Gale Tyler (1898).

A “Little” War’s Foul Legacy

A new book offers bitter commentary on the onset of the age of American empire.

by Ralph L. Defalco via Law & Liberty on November 25, 2025

President John F. Kennedy with his brother Robert F. Kennedy

What RFK Jr. Didn’t Tell You About the False Flag Operation He Loves to Denounce

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. leaves out his father's role in pushing false flag plans for a war with Cuba.

by Ken Hughes via The Conversation on November 24, 2025

USS Maine

Why is America’s First Great War of Empire Barely Remembered at Home?

On the legacy of the United States' involvement in the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Revolution.

by Joe Jackson via Literary Hub on October 15, 2025

Medical supplies for the front are piled up at a railway station in Ethiopia, in 1935.

This Black Educator Looked to Conflicts Abroad for Lessons on Fighting Racism at Home

The Second Italo-Ethiopian War and the Spanish Civil War offered Melva L. Price an opportunity to examine the links between racism and fascism.

by Keisha N. Blain via Smithsonian Magazine on September 15, 2025

Donald Trump; Alexander Hamilton.

Trump Is Hamiltonian, Not Jacksonian

He believes in Federalist 70’s “Energy in the Executive.”

by Francis P. Sempa via Modern Age on July 10, 2025

Leonard Peltier adjusts the black bandana around his head.

Leonard Peltier’s Story Isn’t Over Yet

The Native activist spent nearly fifty years in prison for the killing of two F.B.I. agents. In January, Joe Biden commuted his sentence, and he went home.

by Nick Estes, Leonard Peltier via The New Yorker on June 26, 2025

A hand holds a small rock, with a keffiyeh draping beside it.

The Horrors Inflicted for 500 Years

How Israel’s war in Gaza echoes the ancient doctrine of conquest behind Spain’s colonization of Latin America.

by Greg Grandin via Tom Dispatch on May 22, 2025

Lithograph depicting the Congress of Vienna, 1815.

The Conservative Historian Every Socialist Should Read

A lifetime spent studying the disastrous lead-up to World War I gave Paul Schroeder reason to be horrified at the recklessness of US foreign policy.

by Mathias Fuelling via Jacobin on April 22, 2025

Abraham Lincoln

Was the Civil War Inevitable?

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America.

by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on April 21, 2025

Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House.

Trump’s Gaza Plan May Mark the End of the Postwar Order

Although the West has long tolerated forced expulsions when convenient, its postwar framework at least nominally rejected them. Now the US is endorsing it.

by Dirk Moses via Jacobin on February 16, 2025

Protestors after Nixon's Election protesting the end to war.

US Labor and the Gaza War: Historical Perspective

Are we doomed to repetition? It’s something I worry about.

by Tim Barker via Origins of Our Time on November 15, 2024

Phil Donahue.

Phil Donahue’s Cold War Legacy

The late telejournalist was a pioneer of informal diplomacy between American and Soviet citizens.

by Adriel Kasonta via The American Conservative on September 25, 2024

A painting of a desolated, ruined street.

Defeating Death Only with Death

On civilians’ opinion of killing civilians by air during World War II.

by Cormac Ó Gráda via HNN on September 10, 2024

Painting of a colonial battle in Africa.

No War Is Too Small: How Localized Conflicts Sparked Imperial Violence

Small wars have been used as a foundation of global order. The belief that limited violence preserves peace serves imperial control.

by Lauren Benton via Literary Hub on September 9, 2024

Men and women working in a factory during World War 2.

Dispelling the WWII Productivity Myth

Generally speaking, emergencies tend to reduce productivity, at least in the short and medium terms.

by Alberto Mingardi via Law & Liberty on July 30, 2024

NATO leaders in the 1950s sitting together at a conference.

Ill-Suited to Reality: NATO’s Delusions

It has suddenly become popular to cast NATO as the first benign military alliance in history, without concealed politics.

by Tom Stevenson via London Review of Books on July 25, 2024

Photos of assassination attempts on Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump, and Gerald Ford.

Stop Pretending You Know How This Will End

The failed assassination of Donald Trump might not have any lasting effect on the election or politics in general.

by Derek Thompson via The Atlantic on July 16, 2024

Lithograph of George Washington on his land with people he enslaved.

What, to the American, Is Revolutionary?

The colonial rebellion we celebrate every July 4th doesn’t fit the definition.

by Kellie Carter Jackson via The Emancipator on July 2, 2024

A billboard next to a road that reads, "Hell is real."

How 19th-Century Spiritualists ‘Canceled’ the Idea of Hell to Address Social and Political Concerns

Spiritualists believed that after shedding the body in death, the spirit would continue on a celestial journey and help those on Earth create a more just world.

by Lindsay DiCuirci via The Conversation on May 8, 2024

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