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On February 2, 1913, at exactly midnight, members of the public started streaming through the doors of the newly constructed Grand Central Terminal to get their first glimpse of the architectural and engineering marvel. More than a century later, with…
On February 18, 1965 at Cambridge University, James Baldwin, the African American novelist and essayist, debated William F. Buckley Jr., the editor and founder of the National Review, on the motion: “The American Dream is at the expense of the…
During the late 1870s and early 1880s, as many as 40,000 African Americans migrated from the South to Kansas, Oklahoma and Colorado. One formerly enslaved man, Benjamin “Pap” Singleton, convinced thousands to make the journey. The Black settlers were lured…
Famous artworks like ‘The Mona Lisa’ and ‘The Scream’ have been among the treasures stolen from museums, churches and castles. Mona Lisa Leaves the Louvre (1911) On August 21, 1911, an amateur painter set up his easel near the spot…
Robert Buzzanco is a professor of history at the University of Houston and co-host of the Green and Red Podcast, and is the author of Vietnam and the Transformation of American Life and Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam…
Van Gosse is Professor of History at Franklin and Marshall College and Co-Chair of Historians for Peace & Democracy. He is the author of The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America, From the Revolution to the Civil War (University of North Carolina Press, 2021).…
Author photo by Linda Maraniss I’ve had a special fondness for the phenomenal athlete Jim Thorpe (1887-1953) since grade school in the late fifties. I read all I could about his incredible story. I almost never kept track…
Ken Weisbrode is a diplomatic and cultural historian currently working in Turkey. He received his PhD from Harvard University, where he studied under Akira Iriye and the late Ernest May. He is the author of Churchill and the King and The Atlantic Century. Carlos…
Ricardo Romo is the author of books including Latinos in America and East Los Angeles: History of a Barrio, a past president of the University of Texas at San Antonio, and an appointee to four Presidential Commissions on higher education issues. Henry B.…
“Little Green Men”—Russian-affiliated troops wearing generic uniforms—in Crimea, March 2014 photo Anton Holoborodko, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Ukraine War has provided a challenging time for the nations of the world and, particularly, for international law. Since antiquity, far-sighted thinkers have…
