History

The Best Wars of Their Lives The Best Wars of Their Lives

A historian plugs some suspicious gaps in two revisionist histories of Vietnam.

Sep 27, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Rick Perlstein

Vietnam: Death of Seven Zipperheads Vietnam: Death of Seven Zipperheads

A soldier's button says "We Shall Overkill." In Vietnam, it speaks the truth.

Sep 11, 2007 / Feature / William Eastlake

The Uninvited Guest The Uninvited Guest

Juan Cole's Napoleon's Egypt examines the little dictator's doomed attempt to occupy an Arab country.

Sep 6, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Roger Owen

The Madness of ‘King’ George The Madness of ‘King’ George

If the President is allowed to invoke the divine right of kings, the American Revolution will have come full circle.

Aug 30, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Simon Prentis

A New Orleans family travels to their home near New Orleans, La., after it was flooded during Hurricane Ida on September 13, 2021.

New Orleans Is Us New Orleans Is Us

If the American people continue to avert their eyes from the slow death of an abandoned city, their communities may soon be the next to fail.

Aug 29, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Billy Sothern

Sacco & Vanzetti Today Sacco & Vanzetti Today

History sheds no new light on their guilt or innocence. But it does make clear that their trial and execution was an unjust and intolerable act of barbarism.

Aug 9, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Moshik Temkin

The Lives of Others The Lives of Others

Lois Gordon's new biography of Nancy Cunard brings the legendary heiress and activist back to life.

Jul 26, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Carla Kaplan

I’m Not the Man I Used to Be I’m Not the Man I Used to Be

The reasons for Günter Grass's silence about his membership in the Waffen SS remain safely hidden in his new memoir.

Jul 26, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Andreas Huyssen

King George W.: James Madison’s Nightmare King George W.: James Madison’s Nightmare

This is the belllicose imperial presidency the authors of our Constitution warned us about.

Jul 18, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Robert Scheer

Vertical Disintegration Vertical Disintegration

A new take on Israel/Palestine: Could Israel's architecture be the solution to the insoluble disputes?

Jun 27, 2007 / Books & the Arts / James Ron

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