How to debunk George W. Bush’s attempts at revisionism
Your definitive guide to the Bush cronies' talking points, and why all of them are insane
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 1:00 PM UTC 248Media George W. Bush
American History
Media George W. Bush
Colonial Williamsburg: Where the Tea Party gets schooled
There's lots of NRA and Tea Party garb in colonial Williamsburg. But the history has a confrontational new approach
Sunday, Apr 7, 2013 4:00 PM UTC 52Life American History, History
“The New Mind of the South”: Not your daddy’s Dixie
A daughter of the South says the region is changing more than even those who live there realize
Sunday, Mar 17, 2013 10:30 PM UTC 60Entertainment What to Read, Books, Nonfiction
When prostitution wasn’t a crime
Some of the first women in American colonies were sex workers, and their profession became a crime only recently
Wednesday, Feb 20, 2013 6:34 AM UTCSocial AlterNet, Prostitution
Are liberals being hypocrites about Obama’s wars?
Maybe liberals don't criticize Obama's foreign policy because American liberalism has always been pro-intervention
Wednesday, Feb 13, 2013 9:59 PM UTC 107Politics Politics, American History
Would Lincoln use drones?
Lincoln probably would have loved drones, but may have held off using them to kill for strategic reasons
Monday, Feb 11, 2013 10:06 PM UTC 12Politics Drones, Abraham Lincoln, History
Religion prof: Opposing gun control is a sin
Reform movements have been most successful when they combined facts with powerful symbolic images
Thursday, Jan 24, 2013 9:37 PM UTC 71Social Religion Dispatches
Victory for strangers, heathens, wastrels!
Republicans counted on tried-and-true class warfare like never before. This time, "outsiders" were the majority
Sunday, Nov 18, 2012 5:00 PM UTC 54Politics GOP, Income inequality
Oliver Stone: America is an “outlaw nation”
The cinematic renegade talks about Obama, FDR, his new Showtime series and the myth of American exceptionalism
Saturday, Nov 17, 2012 8:00 PM UTC 96Entertainment
How Paula Broadwell wronged her readers
Biographers agree that Broadwell wronged her readers -- and not just by sleeping with her subject
Tuesday, Nov 13, 2012 2:36 PM UTC 16Entertainment Paula Broadwell, David Petraeus
From the Civil War to James Bond in one quick step
A historian discovers the truth of Faulkner’s comment: The past isn't dead -- it's not even past
Monday, Nov 12, 2012 10:08 PM UTCPolitics American History, Civil War
Pick of the week: Spielberg’s magnificent “Lincoln”
Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field and an amazing cast bring history alive in Spielberg's moral masterpiece
Friday, Nov 9, 2012 12:30 AM UTC 44Entertainment Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln
“Master of the Mountain”: The real truth about Thomas Jefferson
Forget Sally Hemings -- a historian discovers the ugliest side of a founding father in his ledgers
Sunday, Oct 14, 2012 10:00 PM UTC 60Entertainment Founding Fathers, slavery
“Fever Season”: Revelations of a plague year
A history of Memphis's yellow fever epidemic shows that heroes (and cowards) are where we least expect them
Sunday, Oct 7, 2012 11:00 AM UTCEntertainment public health, Disease
Income inequality greater than in 1774
A string of historical studies shames current U.S. income distribution
Wednesday, Sep 19, 2012 8:18 PM UTCNews Academia, American History
America’s worst historians
Fareed Zakaria's plagiarism scandal shows the danger of journalists trying to write history
Sunday, Aug 19, 2012 4:00 PM UTC 42Politics American History
Galifianakis: Liberal hero
Not the comedian, but his uncle Nick, who took on North Carolina's infamous, racist senator Jesse Helms in 1972
Friday, Aug 10, 2012 4:45 PM UTC 11Politics American History
Gore Vidal: The Virgil of American populism
Despite being known as a man of the left, Vidal represented a populist backlash against mid-century liberalism
Thursday, Aug 2, 2012 4:30 PM UTC 16Politics Gore Vidal, Books
Hot new conservative lie: The private sector invented the Internet
A Wall Street Journal writer claims the government doesn't deserve credit for building the Internet
Tuesday, Jul 24, 2012 8:46 PM UTC 91News American History
Europeanizing America
It's been done before -- including by the Founding Fathers and Lincoln
Tuesday, Jul 24, 2012 6:33 PM UTC 29Politics American History, Europe
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