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In a discussion of his new book, Mark Bowden (author of the best-seller Black Hawk Down) details one of...

The Vietnam War still has the power to divide Americans between those for and against it—and just as surely, between those who remember the era fir...

As part of the multi-library Big Read initiative revolving around The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien’s seminal book about the Vietnam War,...

Was Abraham Lincoln the transcendent champion of African-American freedom that history books depict? Author Fred Kaplan tempers that...

Sidney Blumenthal, a senior advisor to President Bill Clinton and later an advisor to Hillary Clinton, continues to offer a fresh vie...

Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy was three years into his incendiary search for Communists when Dwight Eisenhower assumed the presidency in 1953. Ike...

This annual series wraps its psychological studies of movies directed by Joel and Ethan Coen with 1990’s Miller’s Cros...

This annual series returns in January and February with psychological studies of films directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, whose visi...

This year’s election stakes are high, as always. But perhaps no presidential vote in U.S. history was more consequential than that of 1860. The na...

Lyndon Johnson had the misfortune of following the handsome, martyred John F. Kennedy into the White House and then miring his country in Vietnam....