You may know that the Pilgrims sailed aboard the Mayflower and arrived in Plymouth, Mass. in 1620. But did you know their first Thanksgiving celebration lasted three whole days?
David O. Stewart | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
I wish Judge Porteous well. If he has committed neither treason nor bribery nor a high crime or misdemeanor, he should not retain his judgeship. But he just filed a dumb lawsuit.
Marcella Mroczkowski | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
Today's generation of managers goes to our best business schools not to learn to be builders, creators and healers but to be more clever and effective swindlers, gamblers and parasites.
Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
The health insurance industry does not make obscenely huge profits by selling health insurance that keeps us healthy, but by selling us the idea that health insurance keeps us healthy.
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
A woman whose name we all know was a proud Red, a committed Socialist, and an unapologetic Wobbly. And now she's not only buried in the National Cathedral, she's got her own statue in the Capitol.
Mike Lux | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
No one in all of America's great history got more tangible things that mattered accomplished for the American people. On issue after issue, Ted Kennedy was at the center of the debate.
Mike Lux | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
Progressives and the White House need each other to get anything big and important done. It's how big change happens in this country.
Peter Schwartz | Posted 09.19.2009 | Books
Nixonland reads like nothing more than an undergraduate thesis. It is sprawling, poorly written, and ham-handed analytically.
Chris Rodda | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics
Let's debate your resolution clause by clause and see how well that very impressive looking list of footnotes you keep boasting about stands up to scrutiny.
Tom Engelhardt | Posted 08.20.2009 | Living
Tomorrow, I turn 65, an age I simply never imagined for myself back in those youthful years. And the past, I must admit, now lurks somewhat closer to home -- as, of course, does the future: my future.
Allison Rockefeller | Posted 08.20.2009 | New York
Hamilton arrived in 1773 and began his stunning ascent in a whirlwind, epic tale of crisis and opportunity, from unclaimed son to Founding Father. Doesn't New York set the greatest stage for this kind of story?
Chris Rodda | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics
Governor Rick Perry's (R-TX) has appointed the worst and most dangerous state Board of Education ever, as well as Christian nationalist, history revisionist David Barton as an "expert" to review the state's social studies curriculum.
The Wall Street Journal | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics
The fight over school curriculum in Texas, recently focused on biology, has entered a new arena, with a brewing debate over how much faith belongs in ...
Sheryl McCarthy | Posted 08.13.2009 | New York
I bet few New Yorkers know about the role that the hideous institution of slavery played in shaping the city physically, financially and socially.
Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 08.01.2009 | Living
One of the "Forgotten Founders" is James Wilson, whose contributions to the creation of the United States of America were obscured by his later disgrace.
Ben Fractenberg | Posted 07.10.2009 | Comedy
"The British are coming! OMG! Wake up the militia! Sound the church bells! Update your Facebook status!"
Deanne Stillman | Posted 06.25.2009 | Green
In 1887, a troupe of horses crossed the Atlantic, sailing out of New York harbor as excited crowds looked on.
Larry Kramer | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics
Gay people are victims of an enormous con job. An awful rip-off. A tragic heist. It is time to call its bluff and grow up. This means recognizing that we have been here since the beginning of the history of people.
Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics
'Why don't the mothers of mankind interfere in these matters, to prevent the waste of that human life of which they alone bear and know the cost?'
Don McNay | Posted 06.10.2009 | Business
If we are going to break out of this economic crisis, we don't need business leaders trained in business schools. We need leaders who know and understand history.
Chris Rodda | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics
The resolution, which purports to promote "education on America's history of religious faith," is packed with lies found on Christian nationalist websites and in the books of pseudo-historians.
Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics
Personalities and issues -- or the lack thereof -- make and break political parties.
Chris Rodda | Posted 06.03.2009 | Politics
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann spit out a few more bits of historical hogwash, including a fake George Washington prayer, to bash the president.
Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 06.01.2009 | Politics
We stand justified in asking our leaders to hold America to a higher standard -- to probe the decisions and decision-makers who led us to that darkened cell with its waterboards and bug boxes.
Andrew Bacevich | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics
The persistence of a self-congratulatory account of American history deprives us of self-awareness, hinders our efforts to navigate the treacherous waters in which the country finds itself.
Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 11.19.2009 | Living