With support from the University of Richmond

History News Network

History News Network puts current events into historical perspective. Subscribe to our newsletter for new perspectives on the ways history continues to resonate in the present. Explore our archive of thousands of original op-eds and curated stories from around the web. Join us to learn more about the past, now.

On Other Websites: Weeks of December 17 and 24, 2012

  • Timothy Egan: In Ignorance We Trust
  • Rachel N. Schnepper: Yuletide’s Outlaws
  • Justin Peters: Remembering the Deadliest School Massacre in U.S. History
  • Beverly Gage: History Suggests Gun Change is Possible
  • Juan Cole: Israel’s Apartheid Deepens, Along With Its Global Isolation
  • Thomas J. Sugrue: Workers’ Paradise Lost
  • Thomas Sowell: In its Search for Economic Equality, the Left Ignores History
  • Max Felker-Kantor: Obama Should Treat Gun Control like LBJ Did Civil Rights
  • Timothy Garton Ash: A Referendum on Europe? Bring It On...
  • Toshio Nishi: The New Japanese Nationalism