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What If Warren Harding Wasn’t a Terrible President? by Ronald Radosh and Allis Radosh A much-maligned chief executive, reconsidered.

Our Roost, Obama’s Chickens by Victor Davis Hanson From the Middle East to Russia to our own southern border, Obama’s bills are coming due.

The Shocking Ways We Talked About Birth Control in 1932 by Richard Kreitner A depressingly relevant—if fascinating—exercise it is, to revisit a special issue about birth control The Nation published on January 27, 1932.

U.S. Foreign Policy and the Left by Andrew Hartman Intellectual historians are tackling foreign policy.

Why we’re in a stalemate at home by David Kaiser The Democratic electoral strategy essentially accepts our economic state and our distribution of wealth as the best we can do.

The Road to Same-Sex Marriage: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and the American Family by Daniel Winunwe Rivers While marriage was the ostensible issue in the Supreme Court ruling that overturned the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, the question of children and their parents was at the very heart of the case.

The Bush Trifecta that's Landed on Obama: Gaza, Iraq and Afghanistan by Juan Cole The Bush administration’s activities in West Asia undermined stability there so badly that the region has gone on haunting Obama and threatening to draw him into quagmires.

Surprising Support for Israel, not Hamas by Daniel Pipes "Israel is getting support, or at least restraint and fairness, from unexpected sources."

The Empire as Basket Case by Tom Engelhardt An Exceptional Decline for the Exceptional Country?

What’s Happening at the Border Is a Humanitarian Crisis, Not a Political One by Matt Garcia The Thousands of Children Fleeing Central America Have Nothing to Do With Our Ongoing Debate Over Immigration

How will historians view us? by Neal Gabler Our era will be seen as a bleak period — another Gilded Age but worse.

How Coffee Fueled the Civil War by Jon Grinspan Ragged veterans and tired nurses agreed with one diarist: “Nobody can ‘soldier’ without coffee.”

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Surprise Finding: Mortality rate of the Mormon handcart trek across the West was low Mormon pioneer mortality rate calculated at 3.5 percent.

KGB targeted intellectuals in 1968 Czechoslovakia Cold War documents released this week show that Soviet leaders were so worried about the 1968 Prague Spring reform movement in Czechoslovakia that they sent experienced KGB spies to help thwart it.

Hiker falls onto monolith, saves it from looters A tourist hiking in the foothills of a waterfall in Mexico two weeks ago fell from a branch onto a Mesoamerican monolith that was in the process of being carved out of the stone by looters.

Most Russians don’t hate WWII foes of Soviet Union – poll Yet a half blames the enemies for the deaths of millions of people..

Saharan remains may be evidence of first race war, 13,000 years ago French scientists working in collaboration with the British Museum have been examining dozens of skeletons, a majority of whom appear to have been killed by archers using flint-tipped arrows.

Castro ordered JFK killed? Wiki entry edited by someone in the government says so. Who's making the changes? That's unknown.

Did the media misreport the destruction of the Tomb of Jonah in Iraq? For now, the Tomb of Jonah appears to be safe..

When chemical weapons killed 90,000 World War I ushered in an era of chemical weapons use that lingers, lethally, into the present day.

Arizona charter school history book says whites envied “freedom” of slaves The school, Heritage Academy, is using two of Skousen’s most popular books, “The 5,000 Year Leap” and “The Making of America.”

Eleanor Roosevelt, Up Close Though she never held elected office, the wife of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is widely considered to be the most influential first lady ever.

Camp X has rich history as Canadian spy school Despite being the foundation of modern North American spy training, surviving structures were razed in 1969.