Regime's historians are delirious as usual. The last terrorist operations in Paris are just war of the French government against the French people and against semitic ethnic groups.

The Other Louisianan with a Tawdry History of Speaking to Racist Groups by Randall Balmer His name is Tony Perkins. Yes, that Tony Perkins, the self-anointed spokesman for Christians you see on TV.

The Paris Tragedy and the War Within Islam by Brian Glyn Williams A Journey into the Battle for the Soul of the Muslim World.

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A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 The blinking light, sound and the numbers on the world map show when, where and how many experiments each country have conducted.

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The power of story by Elizabeth Svoboda Across time and culture, stories have been agents of personal transformation – in part because they change our brains

‘Selma’ vs. History by Elizabeth Drew By distorting an essential truth about the relationship between Lyndon Johnson and Dr. Martin Luther King over the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Selma has opened a very large and overdue debate over whether and how much truth the movie industry owes to the public.

State of Mind: A Future Russia by Walter Laqueur How do Russians envisage their country’s place in the world fifteen or twenty years from now?

Putin Is Responding to the West's Pressure as We Would Respond by William Polk Our interests are best served by the establishment and continuation of healthy, independent and progressive nation states -- both Russia and Ukraine; not two states at daggers drawn.

Why America Keeps Losing Its Wars by Walter Stewart Walter Stewart explains why America is losing its wars and offers a simple solution.

Does every president need a separate library? by Jonathan Zimmerman Multiple libraries are wasteful, costing taxpayers millions of dollars every year. And they’re undemocratic, because they allow our presidents — not the people who elected them — to define their legacies.

The official history of Hirohito — decades in the making — is deeply flawed by Herbert P. Bix It sanitizes his weak leadership during World War II.

Japan’s Island Problem by Alexis Dudden The United States did not create these various island disputes, but as the victor in 1945, it drew expedient boundaries to contain a history of conflict, and those boundaries are showing their limits.

Climate change through history by George F. Will It has produced warming and cooling, prosperity and cities, war and famine

The Dukakis Lesson: Never Ignore an Attack by David Corn A new documentary shows that 1988 Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis learned this too late.

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These Rare Photos of the Selma March Place You in the Thick of History James Barker, a photographer from Alaska, shares his memories of documenting the famed event

Why did my grandfather translate Mein Kampf? Whenever I tell anyone that my Irish grandfather translated Hitler's Mein Kampf, the first question tends to be, "Why did he do that?" Quickly followed by, "Was he a Nazi?"

North America’s First Big City Although little is known about the Native Americans who lived in the East St. Louis area, a team of archaeologists who worked on a dig to clear land for the Stan Musical Veterans Memorial Bridge are ready to share their latest discoveries.

Here Are Some Possible Reasons Why Selma Keeps Getting Snubbed Some, like Peniel Joseph, a history professor at Tufts University, have argued that the recent backlash against the film for its supposed misrepresentation of Lyndon Johnson is an attempt by white viewers to maintain control over the Civil Rights narrative.

Museum capturing Ferguson history as it happens The Missouri History Museum is gathering images and items cataloguing the unrest that followed the August shooting death of Michael Brown by a Ferguson police officer.

The Plan to Build a Mega-Manhattan That Failed, Thank God A Really Greater New York. That was the title of the 1911 proposal by an engineer and planner who imagined paving over massive amounts of New York Harbor to make room to build the New York of the future.

Fox News Gives O'Reilly A "Historical" Series After Years Of Criticism From Historians O'Reilly, who has written a series of books focused on the deaths of prominent historical figures, has been criticized by historians and critics for shoddy scholarship and ahistorical claims.

Two Tuskegee Airmen Die on Same Day in Los Angeles Clarence Huntley Jr. and Joseph Shambrey were born within six weeks of each other and grew up in the same Los Angeles neighborhood in the 1930s. Their parallel lives came to an end on January 5, when both men died at home at the age of 91.

Take Heart, Also-Rans: These Presidents Needed Multiple Tries to Get Elected Here's a historical reminder that persistence sometimes pays.

700 Year Old Murder By analysing mummified faecal matter, researchers have discovered a medieval warlord was poisoned.