Help keep Salon independent

Topic: American History (page 9)

The aftermath of the September 16, 1920 Wall Street bombing (Esemono/Wikimedia)

An attack that changed America

Elias Isquith
Police keep riots under control in the Watts area of Los Angeles, Calif., Aug. 1965; A man stands in front of a line of police officers in riot gear, April 28, 2015, in Baltimore. (AP/David Goldman)

Baltimore: What "violence"?

Andrew O'Hehir
(Associated Press)

I was last out of Saigon

Christian Appy
Ben Affleck (AP/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Ben & Skip's Bogus Journey

Andrew O'Hehir
(AP)

We're not One Nation Under God

Michael Schulson
Tea Party activist William Temple listens as Newt Gingrich addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference, February 27, 2015. (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)

The right flunks U.S. history

Elias Isquith
A small boat rescues a USS West Virginia crew member from the water after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941. (AP)

FDR's Pearl Harbor nightmare

James M. Scott
James Ashley (Wikimedia)

How slavery really ended

Leonard L. Richards
Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth (Wikimedia)

"I know I am in danger"

Joseph Wheelan
(AP/Wikimedia/Reuters/Yuri Gripas/Photo montage by Salon)

Jefferson's tortured afterlife

Andrew Burstein
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Eleanor Roosevelt (AP)

Inside the Roosevelt rivalry

Marc Peyser, Timothy Dwyer
(AP/Scott Stewart/J. Scott Applewhite)

America's not a force for good

Christian Appy
Allan Pinkerton, Abraham Lincoln, center, and Maj. Gen. John A. McClernand in Antietam, Md., after the Battle of Antietam on Oct. 3, 1862. (AP/Library Of Congress/Alexander Gardner)

Lincoln's Civil War brilliance

James M. McPherson
(AP/Carolyn Kaster)

They've been treasonous before

Heather Cox Richardson
Glenn Beck, Cotton Mather, Jenny McCarthy (Reuters/AP/Wikimedia/Chris Keane/Fred Prouser)

Anti-vaxxers, atheism, history

Michael Schulson

The real George Washington

Elias Isquith
Rand Paul, George Washington (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque/Wikimedia/Photo montage by Salon)

America's founding obsession

Andrew M. Schocket
Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama (AP/Alexander Gardner/Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Salon)

Fox would've hated Lincoln

Paul Rosenberg
Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson (Wikimedia)

Not a Christian nation

Laura Miller
George Washington, Robert E. Lee (Wikimedia)

Robert Lee's Southern tragedy

Jonathan Horn
(Wikimedia)

"Huck Finn" is not about race

Laura Miller
(AP)

Nixon's favorite liberal

Stephen Hess
(AP/Sid Hastings)

Selma is hardly history

Nicolaus Mills

North's no better than South

Jason Sokol
« Previous
Page: 9
Next »
Advertisement: