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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
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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
The Archive’s Main Entrance
June 27, 2024
Alan Mikhail— Between the street and the building was a large black wrought-iron fence. On the inside of this one of Egypt’s millions of border markers, two paths led into… 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
Writing a Life
June 5, 2024
Chitralekha Zutshi— For historians, writing biographies can be challenging. We are trained to think in terms of broader social and political processes, not individual lives. But while writing the life… READ MORE
America’s Reckoning with Gaza at Home and the Great Rupture in International Relations
June 4, 2024
Fawaz A. Gerges— In May 1963, in Birmingham, Alabama, more than a thousand school students participated in the Children’s March intended to force the city to reckon with the demands… READ MORE
The High-Tech Revolution is Transforming the Very Foundations of Human Existence
April 4, 2024
Bruce Ackerman— For the first time in history, all of us are living two lives at once — engaging in distant relationships on the internet while dealing with one another… READ MORE
The Women, Men, and Children of the 1984–85 UK Miners’ Strike
March 29, 2024
Robert Gildea— [T]here was something of a gender revolution. Miners’ wives had been transformed by the strike. They had been involved in setting up local support groups, which came together… READ MORE
The Sky Turns Black from Smoke
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Marci Shore— The Sky Turns Black from Smoke Close to midnight on Tuesday, 18 February 2014, twenty-one-year-old Misha Martynenko, reeking of smoke, returned to the Kiev apartment he shared with… READ MORE
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