From 9/11 to 9/11: The Widening of the Atlantic
July 5, 2024
Timothy Garton Ash— As our small group of European experts stood with President George W. Bush on the Truman balcony of the White House one fine May day in 2001,… READ MORE
Category: American History
Independence Day Reading List 2024
July 4, 2024
This 248th Independence Day, also known as Fourth of July, marks the historic day American colonists declared their freedom from Great Britain and adopted the Declaration of Independence. Our Independence… READ MORE
Sea Power: Then and Now
June 26, 2024
Evan Mawdsley— Sea power is back in the news. In April 2022, the cruiser Moskva was sunk by Ukrainian anti-ship missiles. Since last November, American and British warships have actively… READ MORE
Black in New York City: The Story of Billy Waters
June 25, 2024
Mary L. Shannon— How do you tell the story of unrecorded Black lives in early New York City? This was the problem confronting me when I tried to uncover the… READ MORE
Is Our President a National Security Threat?
June 17, 2024
Harold Hongju Koh— If re-elected, could President Trump, by a single tweet, withdraw America from the United Nations, NATO, and every treaty and international organization to which the U.S. belongs?… READ MORE
The Puzzle of Roe v. Wade
June 14, 2024
It may be a bit of mystery why we care so much about Roe. The Court has issued other blockbuster opinions, and they have mostly faded into obscurity. Debates about… READ MORE
Our Palestine Question: A Conversation with Geoffrey Levin
June 11, 2024
Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978 is a new history of the American Jewish relationship with Israel focused on its most urgent and sensitive issue: the question… READ MORE
What the Founders Didn’t Know—But Their Children Did—About the Constitution
June 10, 2024
Alison L. LaCroix— Conflicts between the federal government and the states dominate our current moment in American law and politics. From controversies over who governs at the southern border, to… READ MORE
Sargent Claude Johnson and Black American Modernism
June 3, 2024
Dennis Carr, Jacqueline Francis, and John P. Bowles – As a mixed-raced American artist attempting to find new ways to represent the Black figure in art, Sargent Claude Johnson developed… READ MORE
The American Revolution, Today
May 28, 2024
Richard Brookhiser— History leans heavily on words—and that’s fine, says every publishing house. But there are other media that tell the story. The civil rights movement and America’s wars from… READ MORE
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