Winston Churchill

Can the partnership born on a maritime U.S.-U.K. summit still protect democracy?

A day-by-day account of the historic summit in Yalta, seventy-five years later.

Are a few bombastic speeches really enough to wash the bloodstains off Churchill’s racist hands?

Even Winston Churchill needed a doctor's excuse to get out of Prohibition.

Churchill weaponized her powers of seduction—but Pamela Harriman came into her own when she brought her glamour to Washington.

The new agreement echoes the original 1941 version, but mentions human rights and dignity explicitly, envisioning them as a starting point for the world order.

A review of Robert Dallek's book, "Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life."

History’s academic study is now deeply politicized, with partisan views shaping beliefs and debates over even basic historical facts.

Her long-unpublished novel was the culmination of a years-long fascination. What does it reveal about her fraught views on civil rights?

On the origins of America's hegemonic foreign policy.

Injecting the world’s deadliest toxin into one’s eye was always going to be a hard sell.

The 11-foot-tall elephant reshaped our language, which has proved surprisingly apt.

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

At a time of upheaval, we want to believe that better leaders have the power to change the course of history. But counterfactuals are never simple.

Why our nuclear fears faded – and why that’s dangerous.

Digital archiving is shoddy and incomplete, and it will hamper the ability of future generations to understand the current era.

A new book argues that the conflict was a battle for empire.

A new book argues that efforts to humanize war with smarter weaponry have obscured the task of making peace the first goal of foreign policy.

Daniel James Sundahl reviews D. G. Hart’s American Catholic: The Politics of Faith During the Cold War.

Access to information only goes so far to explain the curious link between secrets and those who tell them.