The history behind current events.

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• Tricky Dick Flicks The trouble with Nixon movies (including Sean Penn's new one).
  David Greenberg Dec. 28, 2004
  
• School for Scandal Revisiting Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis, and Goodwin.
  David Greenberg Dec. 10, 2004
  
• The Sorry Lot of a Bush Cabinet Secretary They've been powerless since the 1700s. But Bush's have it worse than most.
  David Greenberg Nov. 22, 2004
  
• Nixon's Michael Moore The filmmaker who pestered Tricky Dick.
  David Greenberg July 14, 2004
  
• Presidential Legacies Why Reagan and Clinton remain partisan heroes.
  David Greenberg June 29, 2004
  
• Censorship's Trial Balloons What happens when wartime news gets censored?
  Liam Callanan June 16, 2004
  
• The Man, the Myths Don't believe everything you hear about Ronald Reagan.
  David Greenberg June 9, 2004
  
• D-Day OD Why World War II nostalgia has gone too far.
  David Greenberg June 4, 2004
  
• Saigon and Saddam The use and abuse of Vietnam analogies.
  David Greenberg April 19, 2004
  
• Lincoln, Roosevelt, and … Bush? Does war help presidents get re-elected?
  David Greenberg March 25, 2004
  
• Why Is Haiti Such a Mess? It takes a rebellion to get America's attention.
  Kim Iskyan March 24, 2004
  
• The Bellicose Curve Faulty intelligence has catapulted the United States into war all too many times before.
  Matthew Wall Feb. 3, 2004
  
• Tax Cuts in Camelot? JFK lowered taxes, but supply-siders wrongly claim he's their patron saint.
  David Greenberg Jan. 16, 2004