Are war films ever true? The historian Norman Kagan introduced this question in his 1974 book The War Film, adding, “true to what?” Are they true to the experience of war? Are they true to history, to ...

Jeff Forret is professor and Distinguished Faculty Research Fellow at Lamar University. His latest book is Williams’ Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and His Cargo of Black Convicts (Cambridge ...

On a chilly night in the spring of 1934, a 27-year old lawyer and future member of Congress named Robert F. Jones took a ride out to Henry Tapscott’s farm a few miles east of Lima, Ohio. Surrounded by ...

John Thelin is a professor at the University of Kentucky and author of A History of American Higher Education (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019). In 2018, he joined with Patricia Albjerg Graham, ...

Montgomery County executive wants Rockville statue of Rebel soldier off lawn near courthouse In 1913, the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) put a soldier on a pedestal in front of the ...

"Wabash Cannonball" is a light-hearted yet serious country-music song. It celebrates a train that went past my house at the southern edge of Decatur, Illinois, throughout my childhood. Maybe for that ...

Crystal R. Sanders is associate professor of African American studies at Emory University. In July 2022, just days after Americans celebrated Independence Day, President Joseph Biden presented the ...

Jaclynn Ashly is a multimedia journalist currently based in East Africa who has reported from across Africa, the Middle East, and the Caribbean. One of Gebremeskel Tesema’s completed rock-hewn ...

Alex Frangos, in Slate (Feb. 26, 2004): Rynn Berry wants to set the record straight about Adolf Hitler."There's absolutely no evidence he was a vegetarian. It simply isn't true." Berry, a 54-year-old ...

We tend to think of Christian nationalism, the political ideology based on the belief that the country’s authentic identity lies in its Christian roots and in the perpetuation of Christian privilege, ...

A couple of interesting posts at The Russian Front suggest that the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-5 should be thought of as a World War Zero, or alternatively that the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-8 should ...

A lot of conservatives are in a huff about alleged racist cartoons depicting Condi Rice. In general, their charges are overblown. There is at least one dramatic exception, however. This cartoon by ...