Bush: "Why Didn't I Know This?"
by Mark Danner

"What did the third member of the triumvirate, Vice President Cheney—who had known about the conflict for weeks—say at this moment?"

NY Review of Books

Why Solomon Northup’s Story Matters Today
by Stacey Robertson

Slave owners then and human traffickers today use sexual assault to control their victims.

Historians Against Slavery website

Brandeis Betrays its Educational Mission
by Jonathan Zimmerman

Liberals say some views are too offensive, but that's what red-baiters said in the Cold War about communists.

Newsday

"Antisemite Max Blumenthal Incites Murder of Three in Kansas"
by Daniel Pipes

Left-wingers are guilty of hypocrisy.

Daniel Pipes Blog

The Slaughter Bench of History
by Ian Morris

How war created civilization over the past 10,000 years—and threatens to destroy it in the next 40.

The Atlantic

What's really going on in Crimea
by Greta Uehling

"There is no reasonable explanation for how or why events unfolded as they did."

Savage Minds

Who Inspired the Nazi-Klan Leader’s Actions in Kansas? The Answer Here
by Ron Radosh

In a country and city where all of its residents are always aware of the horrors of the Nazi past, it comes as a shock that this wanton act of vicious antisemitic murder has taken place not in Germany, but in the United States.

PJMedia

America’s next great president: Why Obama’s departure paves the way for the next FDR
by Michael Lind

History explains the real differences between Obama and our liberal icons.

Salon

A Pitiful Pulitzer Pick
by Max Boot

The Pulitzer Prize board has just managed to do the impossible.

Commentary

Jim DeMint’s History Lesson
by Jamelle Bouie

Why is the Heritage Foundation president confused about American history?

Slate