Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

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

How Diamonds Destroyed a People by Stan Winer The horrible human tragedy and deceit on which the fortune of Cecil Rhodes rests.

The United States Isn’t the Only Country Still Trying to Figure Out the Vietnam War by Tuong Vu So is Vietnam.

Once a Liberal Icon, Jefferson’s Now Claimed by Both Left and Right by Andrew Burstein How can that be? People believe what they want to believe.

Why Historians Should Demand the Redskins Change Their Name by James Loewen Historians have an obligation to speak out against blatant racism.

Nancy Pearl’s Love Affair with History: An Interview by Robin Lindley America’s most beloved reading advocate on the allure of the past.

Capturing History as it Really Happened in October 1962 by Sheldon M. Stern The first in a series of articles about what we know now about the Cuban Missile Crisis that we didn’t know until recently.

It’s Time We Face the Fact that Ronald Reagan Was Hostile to Civil Rights by Doug Rossinow Reagan rode the white backlash—along with other major issues, to be sure—farther than anyone else ever did in American history, before or since.

What We Know Know About the Birth of Israel Thanks to the Opening of British MI5 Archives by Bruce Hoffman An interview with Bruce Hoffman, author of “Anonymous Soldiers” (Knopf).

Black and White? by Carver Clark Gayton How race relations look through the eyes of the great-grandson of a slave who looked white.

Review of Danielle Allen’s “Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality” by M. Andrew Holowchak Allen’s book, much lauded by reviewers, fails wholly.

Let’s Hear It for Bill and Hillary by Bruce Chadwick If you want to really get a good laugh at the expense of William Jefferson Clinton and his wife Hillary, see Clinton: the Musical. It is uproarious, a brilliant and rousing story of the Arkansas Ramblers.

‘Sound of Music’s Maria Still Beating the Nazis after 50 years by Bruce Chadwick For half a century, Maria has been singing, dancing and twirling her way across the Alps and into the hearts of people around the world.