Winston Churchill

With Susan Ronald’s meticulous, relentless biography, Joseph P. Kennedy is now firmly established in the annals of twentieth-century fascism.

The fight over the American Jobs Plan reflects a long history of competing visions of public works—and, most of all, who should benefit from rebuilding.

"Everything's sort of layered on a false understanding of history."

The past has habitually been repurposed in a manner inhibiting ethical accountability in the present.

After Charlottesville, the historian Joan Wallach Scott wanted to find out how societies face up to their past—and why some fail.

The oval office looks different now that President Biden is its occupant.

A new history of five heroes of the revolutionary period considers the power and instability of charismatic leadership.

Democrats and Republicans are increasingly united in an anti-China front. But their approaches to U.S. foreign policy diverge.

The hope for historical vindication is loud now but not new.

A new book explains how U.S. political elites sold the UN to the public as a route to global peace, while all along wanting it as a cover for militarization.

Reactionary leaders are invoking communism as a way of attacking the left, says author and activist Richard Seymour.

In the middle of the biggest international crisis ever since, it’s time to admit what the war was—and wasn’t.

His political evolution points to a different locus of power than the one liberals tend to invoke when discussing the era’s history.

The correspondence of Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower and George C. Marshall leading up to D-Day.

Admiral William D. Leahy was instrumental in bringing the Allies together to agree upon the invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe.

How the CIA’s first attempt at regime change nearly failed.

“The Improbable Wendell Willkie” offers a look at how American politics might have been.

Reflections on live-tweeting the Great War.

A century after the guns fell silent, the United States risks replicating the errors of the past.

The ardent but flawed movement against World War I.