List of History articles
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Art collectives march in Buenos Aires to commemorate the Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice. Will Argentina’s Stolen Generation Be Forgotten?
Far-right leaders want to erase the memory of the junta’s disappeared. The fight to remember them is now in the hands of Argentine youth.
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Olaf Scholz looks on during a two-day party meeting on February 07, 2021 in Berlin, Germany. The Real Reason Germany Is Always Afraid
Berlin hesitates on everything because of its ruling party’s identity problems.
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A black and white image shows men and women seated around a U-shaped conference table. Why the World Isn’t Really United Against Russia
Global institutions have long relegated much of the world to second-class status.
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Bucha resident Tetiana Ustymenko weeps over the grave of her son. What Makes Armies Commit Atrocities?
The crimes in Ukraine stem from Russian military brutalities.
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Then-U.S. President Donald Trump talks to journalists during a news conference about his administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic at the White House in Washington on July 22, 2020. Donald Trump’s History Book
Journalists have written the “first rough draft of history,” but now it is historians’ turn to assess a most unconventional presidency.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping via a video link at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence. The U.S. Can’t Afford a Double Cold War
A new global order needs to avoid simultaneous conflict with China and Russia.
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Mahatma Gandhi In Paris Once Upon a Time, India Inspired the World
What today’s India can learn from the foreigners who once fought for its cause.
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Edvard Benes (left), president of Czechoslovakia, is greeted by the crowd upon his return to Plzen in June 1945. Why Is Ethnic Discrimination Still Legal in Slovakia?
The country’s retroactive application of a World War II-era law disenfranchises people with German and Hungarian ancestry.
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A map showing Ukraine is pictured at the German Bundeswehr Joint Forces Operations Command. In Putin’s War, the Map Is Not the Territory
Depictions of territory supposedly occupied by Russia are misleading.
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A screenshot from the Expeditions: Rome videogame. A Shiny (and Wrong) Vision of Roman Imperialism
Expeditions: Rome tries to be accurate, but it’s all surface.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a government meeting. What Putin’s Past Says About Ukraine’s Future
A historian speaks on how the Russian president’s history helps explain his current mindset.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin gives a speech. Putin’s Speech Laid Out a Dark Vision of Russian History
There’s no room for Ukraine in the Russian leader’s distorted telling of the past.
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U.S. President Richard Nixon in China in 1972; Harned Hoose in Beijing in the early 1970s. ‘I Can Think as the Chinese Do’
Harned Hoose played both sides of the U.S.-China relationship—including during Nixon’s famous trip.
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Polish President Andrzej Duda and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky hold a press conference following talks on bilateral relations and Ukraine’s ties to Europe at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw on Aug. 31, 2019. How Poland Turned Ukraine to the West
For Kyiv, Warsaw is a model of what a country can become when it escapes the Russian umbrella.
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Joe Biden speaks to reporters before the start of a bilateral meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in the Oval Office at the White House on February 7, 2022 in Washington. Biden’s Truman Moment Has Arrived in Ukraine
The U.S. president is committed to containment against Russia. But what kind?
