Current Events that Relate to History

What lessons can we take from Robert McNamara’s failure to reckon with the exceptionalism that led the United States into the Vietnam War?

Over two decades later, the Iraq War appears driven less by oil and more by U.S. ambitions to project geopolitical power in the Middle East.

Have you heard the story about a Christian abolitionist “de-arresting” someone?

Conservatism was a distinct ideology but it is dead and it is not coming back.

A review of the fifth episode of Ken Burns’s American Revolution series.

Stories about the core structure of American governance — in theory and in practice.