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 Reporting on the Times, The New York Times and the Holocaust
Of more than 23,000 front-page articles between 1939 and 1945, just 26 were about the Holocaust.
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 What Ted Cruz Doesn’t Know About Ronald Reaganby John Nichols
Reagan was a liberal Democrat who decried wrongheaded Republicans before he became the conservative hero of wrongheaded Republicans.
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 Fear of a foreign-born president made sense in 1787 – not todayby Jonathan Zimmerman
Why do you have to be a natural-born citizen in order to lead the country?
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 So Hillary believes in the discredited Southern Lost Cause theory? Ridiculous.by Harold Holzer and Norton Garfinkle
Her remark that had Lincoln lived the horrors of post-war Reconstruction might have been mitigated doesn't make her an enemy of Reconstruction.
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 Five myths about Reconstructionby James W. Loewen
The United States is entering the sesquicentennial of Reconstruction, that period after the Civil War when African Americans briefly enjoyed full civil and political rights. Here are five common fallacies that Americans still tell themselves about this formative period.
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 Reagan as Historyby Kiron K. Skinner
Can any one biography do justice to the life and accomplishments of America’s fortieth President?
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 Tahrir 5 Years Laterby Juan Cole
The Hurdles to Democratization & Arab Youth Revolts
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 The Jew Who Silenced America’s Earliest Anti-Semitesby Gil Troy
Americans besieged by today’s hateful rhetoric would be wise to look up Jacob Henry, whose seminal defense of his own faith—and others’—was once memorized by schoolchildren everywhere.
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 America May Have Forgotten Schwarzenegger 2003, but Donald Trump 2016 Has Notby Kaleb Horton
Though we’ve largely disregarded that time the nation’s most populous state elected a former action hero to its governor’s mansion, The Donald’s campaign for the White House is giving us a refresher.
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 The secular front in the USby John Fea
For evangelicals, the secular progressive vision of the world is a threat to the institutions that they hold dear.
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 Ted Cruz has a very real birther problem: The law is not settled — but the history isby Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg
The founders did restrict the presidency to natural-born citizens. Ted Cruz's status is deeply complicated.
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 Human Memory Capacity is Ten Times More Than Previously Thought
A human brain could hold as much information as the entire internet, a new study finds.
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 Amherst College Drops ‘Lord Jeff’ as Mascot
The debate over Lord Jeffery’s role on campus erupted amid a series of controversies at colleges, municipalities and other institutions around the country over the use of historical figures, like slaveholders or Confederate battle figures; stereotypes, particularly about Native Americans; or symbols that some consider offensive.
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 WW1 Era U-Boat Discovered off British Coast
The German submarine, which had been missing in action for more than a century, was found during a detailed scan of the seabed for windfarm development.
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 Map shows how culture in the Middle East is under threat
It shows, sadly, the clear march of destruction by Daesh and its sympathizers.
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 Black history month is suddenly a hot topic on TV
"Just like there shouldn't be a Black History Month. You know? We're Americans. Period. That's it."
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