Nation Topics - History | The Nation

Like the Progressives, Obama seems to believe government can move beyond partisan politics.

Gordon S. Wood defends Jefferson--again.

T.J. Stiles's The First Tycoon is a gilded portrait of the robber baron Cornelius Vanderbilt.

The time to pay down the deficit will come only after the economy recovers.

Archie Brown's account of the high politics of communism's collapse is Kremlinology without the guesswork.

The story of communism's rise and fall in Eastern Europe is a tale of two revolutions.

Yugoslavs were unprepared for the surge of nationalism that followed Tito's communist rule.

A wide-ranging Nation interview with the former Soviet president.

In The Fires of Vesuvius, Mary Beard unearths the seedier realities of the Roman social and political experience.

For the photographer Thomas Demand, Germany is like any other country because it is haunted by history.