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H.W. Brands is the Jack S. Blanton, Sr. chair of history at the University of Texas and the author of Reagan: The Life (Anchor, 2016). Ben Barnes (l) and John Connally (c) meet with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, 1980. Barnes…
Humans have conceived versions of intelligent machines for centuries. The concept of an “intelligent machine”—as a tireless assistant, the ultimate soldier or even a caring companion—has captivated the human imagination for thousands of years. Long before artificial intelligence was a…
Dr. Keri Leigh Merritt is a historian, writer and activist based in Atlanta. She is the author of Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South (Cambridge, 2017) and an organizer of The Civil War Documentary, “a forthcoming documentary made…
Julia Boechat Machado is a PhD candidate in comparative history at the Central European University in Vienna. Students in Brasilia take the ENEM, the national high school exam of Brazil. Former President Jair Bolsonaro had attemtped to revise the exam to…
Brian Robertson holds a Ph.D. in Diplomatic History and studied in Vietnam and Cambodia. His publications have appeared in California History, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and The Washington Post. The Nixon Foundation held a 50th Anniversary commemoration for the…
by Alan J. Singer Caroline Ann Trow Lohman, better known as Madame Restell By a 6-3 vote in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022), the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade (1973) and eliminated a woman’s constitutional…
Eric Laursen is a writer and activist based in western Massachusetts. His latest book, Polymath: The Life and Professions of Dr. Alex Comfort, Author of “The Joy of Sex” (AK Press) will be published at the end of August. Bayard…
Roosevelt endured persistent physical challenges—including paralysis and heart issues—that were largely shielded from the American public. For much of his adult life, Franklin D. Roosevelt battled chronic health problems that could have derailed his political career. Instead, his personal suffering…
The centuries-old ceremony is a mixture of political and religious rites replete in symbolism, tradition and pomp. Royal coronations are ceremonies marking the formal ascension of a British monarch to the throne. The event is a mixture of political and…
Despite the best efforts of amateur and professional archeologists, the ancient world has retained many of its secrets. Ancient history is flush with unsolved mysteries, some of which, from lost burial sites to sunken cities, have captivated the public imagination…
