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Stop Eulogizing Gore Vidal: He Was a Racist and an Elitist

David Greenberg

Aug 02, 2012 11:41 AM

What Santorum Misunderstands About Kennedy’s 1960 Speech on Religious Freedom

David Greenberg

Feb 27, 2012 12:39 PM

Why Are Republicans Suddenly So Obsessed With Calvin Coolidge?

David Greenberg

Nov 10, 2011 12:37 PM

John Morton Blum: The Death of a Legendary Historian

David Greenberg

Oct 21, 2011 12:05 PM

Do Conservatives Who Attack the New Deal Actually Know What America Gained From It?

Michael Hiltzik

Oct 13, 2011 10:34 AM

The Stranger-Than-Fiction History of the Civil-Rights Era’s Most Famous Photograph

David Margolick

Oct 11, 2011 2:12 PM

Yale anti-Semitism controversy: How did a concern with anti-Semitism come to be seen as the province of the right?

David Greenberg

July 01, 2011 4:56 PM

Democracy by Henry Adams: why it’s the best anonymous Washington novel.

David Greenberg

April 20, 2011 2:28 PM

Civil War anniversary: 1861 author Adam Goodheart discusses an amazing new exhibition of soldier portraits. (PHOTOS)

David Plotz

April 15, 2011 7:09 AM

Unsolved codes and ciphers from across the ages.

Elizabeth Weingarten

April 08, 2011 11:29 AM

Tsunamis in the United States have hit Crescent City, Calif., 31 times since 1933.

Timothy Noah

March 11, 2011 12:27 PM

The great migration from black to white: an overlooked chapter in the history of African-Americans.

Daniel J. Sharfstein

Feb 22, 2011 7:20 AM

Eisenhower’s “military-industrial complex”: His farewell address has been completely misunderstood.

David Greenberg

Jan 14, 2011 6:57 AM

Jared Loughner: Of course his actions were politically motivated.

David Greenberg

Jan 10, 2011 6:01 PM

The real purpose of the Espionage Act.

David Greenberg

Dec 27, 2010 8:47 AM

Obama needs a little of the Truman touch.

David Greenberg

Nov 19, 2010 7:16 AM

What the new Woodrow Wilson haters don’t understand.

David Greenberg

Oct 22, 2010 7:12 AM

Did JFK really win because he looked better on television?

David Greenberg

Sept 24, 2010 7:16 AM

How Wilson and Roosevelt tried to roll back the power of corporations.

David Greenberg

July 15, 2010 1:35 PM

Two history professors read Elena Kagan’s undergraduate thesis.

David Greenberg and Tony Michels

May 21, 2010 5:54 PM

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