Even after the fighting started, it took years before American Patriots started calling their cause a “revolution.” ...

On a chilly night in the spring of 1934, a 27-year old lawyer and future member of Congress named Robert F. Jones took a ride out to Henry Tapscott’s farm a few miles east of Lima, Ohio. Surrounded by ...

Jeff Forret is professor and Distinguished Faculty Research Fellow at Lamar University. His latest book is Williams’ Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and His Cargo of Black Convicts (Cambridge ...

Thomas Cahill, a multilingual scholar who wrote a surprise 1995 best seller demonstrating to the world how a small band of Irish monks collected and protected the jewels of Western civilization after ...

Crystal R. Sanders is associate professor of African American studies at Emory University. In July 2022, just days after Americans celebrated Independence Day, President Joseph Biden presented the ...

Alex Frangos, in Slate (Feb. 26, 2004): Rynn Berry wants to set the record straight about Adolf Hitler."There's absolutely no evidence he was a vegetarian. It simply isn't true." Berry, a 54-year-old ...

A couple of interesting posts at The Russian Front suggest that the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-5 should be thought of as a World War Zero, or alternatively that the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-8 should ...

A lot of conservatives are in a huff about alleged racist cartoons depicting Condi Rice. In general, their charges are overblown. There is at least one dramatic exception, however. This cartoon by ...

As many readers know, I recently discovered in the Library of Congress a memo from Assistant Secretary of War John McCloy to Undersecretary of War Robert Patterson, dated July 23, 1942. The memo is in ...

The New York Times analyzed every word Mr. Trump spoke at his White House briefings and other presidential remarks on the virus — more than 260,000 words — from March 9, when the outbreak began ...

Mark S. Byrnes is professor of History at Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC. Something remarkable in American presidential history happened on Inauguration Day. No, not the obvious one. The nation’s ...

We all accept that movies stretch the truth in the interest of building drama. The following ten flicks, however, treat the truth like it was Silly Putty -- pulling and twisting it until it's ...