The history behind current events.

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• Presidential Rematches What Andrew Jackson can teach Al Gore about beating Bush in 2004.
  David Greenberg Dec. 3, 2002
  
• Is Iraq the New Japan? What the post-World War II occupation of Japan can teach us about ruling Iraq.
  David Greenberg Oct. 18, 2002
  
• The Trial of Henry K. Was Kissinger a war criminal? A new movie can't prove the case.
  David Greenberg Oct. 9, 2002
  
• Does the United States Start Wars? Would an American invasion of Iraq be unprecedented?
  David Greenberg Oct. 8, 2002
  
• Baseball's Con Game How did America's pastime get an antitrust exemption?
  David Greenberg July 19, 2002
  
• The Pledge of Allegiance Why we're not one nation "under God."
  David Greenberg June 28, 2002
  
• Watergate Misremembered The shallow debate about Deep Throat.
  Stanley I. Kutler June 18, 2002
  
• The Truman Show Bush's Department of Homeland Security plan is modeled on Truman's 1947 national security reorganization. Here's what Harry got wrong.
  David Greenberg June 13, 2002
  
• Bhagwan Teddy Explaining the cult of Theodore Roosevelt.
  David Greenberg March 28, 2002
  
• Nixon and the Jews. Again. If his tirades against Jews weren't anti-Semitism, what were they?
  David Greenberg March 12, 2002
  
• Fighting Fair The laws of war and how they grew.
  David Greenberg Jan. 17, 2002