The theme song of the radical right
How "Battle Hymn of the Republic" -- Reagan's favorite song -- became the background music of the modern GOP
Sunday, Jun 16, 2013 5:30 PM UTC 35Media Music, American History
How "Battle Hymn of the Republic" -- Reagan's favorite song -- became the background music of the modern GOP
Sunday, Jun 16, 2013 5:30 PM UTC 35Simply note libertarianism's fatal flaw and you'll get an enraged, hysterical response. They still don't get it
Tuesday, Jun 11, 2013 7:57 PM UTC 596A historical aircraft recovery group might solve the 76-year-old mystery of the pilot's disappearance
Thursday, May 30, 2013 9:23 PM UTC 32Folksy evangelical Sam P. Jones warned of “scandalmongers” who “feed on human character and soiled reputation”
Wednesday, May 29, 2013 2:00 PM UTCBefore their fatal duel, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr teamed up in court to save a man from the gallows
Sunday, May 26, 2013 11:00 PM UTCA deeply-reported exploration of the past 35 years of American life gauges the human cost of "freedom"
Sunday, May 19, 2013 10:00 PM UTC 39Powerful, moving images of Richard Nixon that will restore every true late-'60s/early-'70s kid's faith in humanity VIDEO
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 6:09 PM UTC 28By analyzing the dreams of early Americans, we can finally answer the elusive question: Were they like us?
Saturday, May 4, 2013 7:00 PM UTCYour definitive guide to the Bush cronies' talking points, and why all of them are insane
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 1:00 PM UTC 248There'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 52A 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 60Some 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 UTCMaybe liberals don't criticize Obama's foreign policy because American liberalism has always been pro-intervention
Wednesday, Feb 13, 2013 9:59 PM UTC 107Lincoln 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 12Reform movements have been most successful when they combined facts with powerful symbolic images
Thursday, Jan 24, 2013 9:37 PM UTC 71Republicans counted on tried-and-true class warfare like never before. This time, "outsiders" were the majority
Sunday, Nov 18, 2012 5:00 PM UTC 54The cinematic renegade talks about Obama, FDR, his new Showtime series and the myth of American exceptionalism
Saturday, Nov 17, 2012 8:00 PM UTC 96Biographers agree that Broadwell wronged her readers -- and not just by sleeping with her subject
Tuesday, Nov 13, 2012 2:36 PM UTC 16A 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 UTCDaniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field and an amazing cast bring history alive in Spielberg's moral masterpiece
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