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Why do people believe myths about the Confederacy? Because our textbooks and monuments are wrong. by James W Loewen False history marginalizes African Americans and makes us all dumber.

Why Liberals Shouldn’t Worry About a Backlash to the Same-Sex Marriage Ruling: An Interview with Harvard’s Michael Klarman by Rick Shenkman Professor Klarman, who’s written about the backlash triggered by the Brown decision, says the circumstances are different this time.

This Myth Obscures the Surprising Truth About the Confederacy by Joan E. Cashin When white Southerners proclaim that the Confederate flag represents their history, they are misrepresenting their own history. Some of their ancestors opposed the war effort, and some of them fought for the United States flag.

George Whitefield, Hero of the Revolution? by Jessica M. Parr As independence was declared, and the new country sought to frame its new political and social identity, there was even more of a need to construct an American religious identity.

NYT History Book Reviews: Who Got Noticed this Week? by Erik Moshe This week ... books about Nixon (reviewed by David Greenberg) and Joseph Ellis's latest exegesis on the Founding Fathers.

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Not the Confederate Flag The history of the real flag of the Confederacy.

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South Carolina’s warped public display of its white-supremacist history confronts South Carolinians, white and black, with a stark message about who rules the state. by Eric Foner

Liberals have reason to rejoice by Julian Zelizer But they should still not be sanguine. They shouldn't go too far in thinking that the nation is all of a sudden trending to the left.

Suffragist Belle La Follette earned a spot on the $10 bill by Nancy C. Unger The winner should be someone who fought for everyone’s rights

Han Chinese Marriage: A Lesson for Chief Justice John Roberts by Andrew Meyer Marriage has evolved (much more recently than most people imagine) to become a relationship between equals, thus there is no justification to exclude same-gender couples from the marital bond.

It’s Not Just the Confederate Flag by William Loren Katz The Confederate flag represents a threat to citizens of color, a symbol of treason against the United States, and a war fought on behalf of slaveholders.

A New Deal for Greece? by Bill Kelson Like the Roosevelt administration of the 1930s, Syriza and its coalition partners want to break Greece out of a straightjacket of budgetary constraints.

Sexism in science: did Watson and Crick really steal Rosalind Franklin’s data? by Matthew Cobb The race to uncover the structure of DNA reveals fascinating insights into how Franklin’s data was key to the double helix model, but the ‘stealing’ myth stems from Watson’s memoir and attitude rather than facts

Bring down the Confederate flag, not memory of Civil War fallen by Jonathan Zimmerman In the wake of the Charleston murders, the campaign against the Confederate flag has morphed into attacks on other historical vestiges of the Confederacy itself. And anyone who cares about history should be alarmed by that.

The President Against the Historian by Bret Stephens Michael Oren’s candid account of Obama’s Mideast policy has won him the right enemies.

"Hi, I'm Uncle Sam and I'm a War-oholic" by William Astore War on drugs. War on poverty. War in Afghanistan. War in Iraq. War on terror. The biggest mistake in American policy, foreign and domestic, is looking at everything as war.

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Dylann Roof’s eerie tour of American slavery at its beginning, middle and end Retrace Charleston Shooting Suspect Dylann Roof's steps as he traveled through South Carolina.

Catching One Nazi Became His Life When McKay Smith went looking for his grandfather, he found demons. Some of them his own.

Meet The Man Who Created The Rainbow Flag Until we had a flag, the symbol for our movement was the pink triangle, which was put on us by Hitler and the Nazis.

Nazi propaganda is still working Germans who were born in the 1930s show significantly more anti-Semitism than those who were born earlier or later.

Landrieu apologizes for city's role in slave trade As the debate rages over the confederate flag in parts of the South, Mayor Mitch Landrieu held a forum to talk about race relations in New Orleans and around the country.

President Ronald Reagan's biggest secret: He packed heat in his briefcase If Reagan could carry a gun, what have other Presidents carried with them?

How A Historical Blunder Helped Create The Water Crisis In The West In 1922, seven Western states drew up an agreement on how to divide the waters of the Colorado River. But there was one big problem with the plan: They overestimated how much water the river could provide.

Where Stonewall fits into the story The long path to the Supreme Court's decision began in the 1960s. Stonewall marked a turning point.

These Are the Most Threatened Historical Places in America The Grand Canyon, The Factory and the A.G. Gaston Motel are just a few of the 11 names on the list

Sleuth Work Leads to Discovery of Art Beloved by Hitler It is legal to possess art commissioned by the Nazis, but it can remain in private hands only if the state has no direct claim on it.