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The 2015 OAH Annual Meeting: Videos, News, Everything by Rick Shenkman Find out what American historians are thinking.

Top 3 OAH Videos

- Patty Limerick’s Presidential Address

- What Economists Are Saying Now About Slavery

- Jonathan Zimmerman:  How to Get Your Op Ed Published

Story of the Week

How the Computer Got Its Revenge on the Soviet Union by Slava Gerovitch Condemned as a capitalist tool, the computer would help expose the USSR’s weakness.

Video of the Week

On Time-Lapse Rocket Ride to Trade Center’s Top, Glimpse of Doomed Tower From the moment the doors close until they reopen 47 seconds later on the 102nd floor, a seemingly three-dimensional time-lapse panorama will unfold on three walls of the elevator cabs, as if one were witnessing 515 years of history unfolding at the tip of Manhattan Island.

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The Horrific Unintended Consequence of Doolittle’s Courageous Raid on Tokyo by James M. Scott The Chinese paid the price for American heroism.

Vietnam in the Battlefield of Memory by Jon Wiener On the war’s 50th anniversary, peace activists will be challenging the Pentagon’s whitewashed history.

The Iran Deal and Its Consequences by Henry Kissinger and George P. Shultz "Until clarity on an American strategic political concept is reached, the projected nuclear agreement will reinforce, not resolve, the world’s challenges in the region."

Top Ten ways to prove you Love the Earth on Earth Day by Juan Cole Environmentalism meant something different in 1970 than it does now.

The Deep Roots of the Ukraine Crisis by Richard Sakwa We must rethink the post–Cold War security order.

The Rule of History by Jill Lepore Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, and the hold of time.

Madam President: Are we really ready for Hillary Clinton? by Jonathan Zimmerman Female candidates are defined by their gender in a way that men never are. And in the public mind, those definitions typically makes the women seem, well, unpresidential.

Privatizing History by Patrick Stephenson It's hard to have historical grievances if you don't know any history.

The Iranian Ascendancy by Peter Van Buren Twelve Years Later, We Know the Winner in Iraq: Iran

Remember the Carter Doctrine by Max Boot and Michael Doran A better way forward in the Middle East.

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FBI director got it wrong on the Holocaust In two poorly worded sentences, he sounded to Polish readers as if he were repeating the World War II myth that most drives them crazy: Namely, that somehow, those who lived in occupied Eastern Europe shared full responsibility for a German policy.

McVeigh defense archive shows bomber viewed blast as failure “In McVeigh’s mind, he believed that he had definitely screwed up because he left the building still standing.”

Largest Muslim organization in the US lambasted for refusing to face up to the Armenian Genocide Critics call out the organization for hypocrisy.

Former Auschwitz Guard on Trial Says He Shares ‘Moral Guilt’ 93-year-old Oskar Groening acknowledged working at Auschwitz

Turkish Premier Says European Stance on Armenian Genocide Reflects Racism While Turkey acknowledges that atrocities took place, it refuses to take responsibility for the deaths, claiming that a large number of people — many of them Turks — were also killed as a result of civil war and famine.

Ben Affleck Asked PBS to Not Reveal Slave-Owning Ancestor Ben Affleck requested that the PBS documentary series "Finding Your Roots" not reveal he had a slave-owning ancestor, according to emails published online by whistleblower site WikiLeaks, and the information never appeared on the program.

Archaeologists Take Wrong Turn, Find World’s Oldest Stone Tools Dated to around 3.3 million years ago, the implements are some 700,000 years older than stone tools from Ethiopia that previously held this distinction.

Evidence of Pre-Columbus Trade Found in Alaska House Bronze artifacts discovered in a 1,000-year-old house in Alaska suggest trade was occurring between East Asia and the New World centuries before the voyages of Columbus.

Rwanda Pullout Driven by Clinton White House, U.N. Equivocation Newly declassified Clinton White House e-mails and notes detail a decisive U.S. role in the tragic pullout of United Nations peacekeepers during the first two weeks of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Centuries of Italian History Are Unearthed in Quest to Fix Toilet As he tried to find a sewage pipe, Luciano Faggiano dug his way past a Messapian tomb, a Roman granary, a Franciscan chapel and even etchings from the Knights Templar.