Roundup Top 10!
These women were denied veteran status for decades. Congress can’t overlook them again.by Elizabeth CobbsSens. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) now propose to honor the women of the Signal Corps with the Congressional Gold Medal. |
The Rise of the Pedantic Professorby Sam FallonWhen academic self-regard becomes an intellectual style. |
The toxic legacy of the Korean Warby Mary L. DudziakThe conflict upended the constitutional balance. It has been cited by presidents ever since. |
Women in Ancient Rome Didn’t Have Equal Rights. They Still Changed Historyby Barry StraussIf we look hard at the history, we discover some women who made their mark, either working within their prescribed gender roles as wives, lovers, mothers, sisters or daughters, or exercising so much political, religious or, even in a few cases, military power that they smashed those roles altogether and struck out on their own. |
The History of Sexism in the Southern Baptist Churchby Susan M. ShawRecent media reports have revealed decades of abuse by Southern Baptist pastors. Here is the history behind the reports. |
Barack Obama’s Presidential Library Is Making a Mockery of Transparencyby Anthony ClarkThe leader of the “most transparent administration in history” has been anything but transparent when it comes to plans for his presidential center. |
Grant’s First Tombby Jamelle BouieUlysses S. Grant, inaugurated as president 150 years ago today, missed a chance to reconstruct the South economically as well as politically. |
The Island That Changed Historyby Sergey RadchenkoA 1969 border clash between Moscow and Beijing pushed the two apart, and opened the door for Nixon to go to China. |
Policing black Americans is a long-standing, and ugly, American traditionby Vanessa Holden and Edward E. BaptistA new database of all the fugitive slave ads from U.S. and colonial history reveal how white Americans trained and incentivized themselves to police black Americans’ movements. |
Michael Cohen’s testimony exposed a direct parallel between Trump and Watergateby Shane O'SullivanPayoffs kept Watergate hidden, but eventually whistleblowers like Cohen flipped. |
Five Reasons Why Republicans Won’t Abandon Trump Like They Ditched Nixonby Ed KilgoreThere are five reasons a broader Republican backlash like the one that helped push Nixon out of office won’t happen if Mueller’s suggestions of law-breaking are limited to obstruction of justice. |