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FDR, Fiorello La Guardia and rebuilding New York City during the New Deal.

With Anti-Judaism, David Nirenberg has recast the debate about the origins and nature of anti-Semitism in Western thought.

How do Greece’s economists and writers explain its social predicament?

A historian’s view of why political demands, past and present, have weighed on Turkish debates about the Armenian genocide.

Frustrated, stubborn, committed to bad science, was Louis Agassiz anything other than a laughingstock?

The memorial to Parks turned her into a meek and redemptive figure—instead of the radical freedom fighter she was until the end of her life.

The Smithsonian’s show on the Civil War and American Art expresses a deep unease about the relationship between between art and history.

Nick Turse’s Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam.

In his new book Kill Anything That Moves, Nick Turse shows that what were often presented as isolated atrocities were in fact the norm.