“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
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“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
No, America doesn’t need a national service
We're always told we need a "national service." But feel-good class-mixing gimmicks are no cure for inequality
Tuesday, Jul 10, 2012 6:40 PM UTC 58Politics American History
Is America more exceptional today than in 1776?
Unlike today's leaders, the authors of the Declaration understood that "American exceptionalism" had to be earned
Wednesday, Jul 4, 2012 5:30 PM UTC 61Politics American History
Francis Scott Key on trial
Land of the free? Remembering when the man who penned "The Star-Spangled Banner" defended slavery
Wednesday, Jul 4, 2012 11:30 AM UTC 46Life American History, Race
Earhart mystery solved?
On the 75th anniversary of Amelia Earhart's final flight, an expedition team says it can find her missing plane
Monday, Jul 2, 2012 1:28 PM UTC 13Life GlobalPost, Mysteries, aviation
The 1 percent’s first fight
Debates about the rich's influence in government are as old as the country
Saturday, Jun 30, 2012 3:00 PM UTC 12Politics American History, History
George W. Bush: Still the worst
A new study ranks Bush near the very bottom in history, due to delusional wars, reckless spending and inflexibility
Friday, Jun 29, 2012 11:30 AM UTC 145Politics George W. Bush, Editor's Picks
“The Mansion of Happiness”: Matters of life and death
What board games, "Stuart Little," cryogenics and death panels reveal about Americans
Sunday, Jun 24, 2012 9:00 PM UTCEntertainment What to Read, American History
God is a weapon
Presidential candidates have used religion to attack each other for centuries. An expert explains why -- and how
Thursday, Jun 21, 2012 2:00 PM UTCLife American History, History
America’s first neocon war
The War of 1812 gave us the first "hawks" in U.S. history
Tuesday, Jun 19, 2012 11:45 AM UTCPolitics American History
America’s war mistakes
President after president has fallen into similar traps when it comes to conflict. An expert explains why
Saturday, Jun 16, 2012 8:00 PM UTC 36Life American History, History
What gets declassified?
JFK assassination documents offer surprising lessons about government secrecy -- and Obama's presidency
Thursday, May 31, 2012 9:09 PM UTC 47Life American History
The new face of “Democrats are the real racists!”
The National Review's lame attempt at revisionist political history
Monday, May 28, 2012 11:45 AM UTC 101Politics American History
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