The epic story of a legendary WWII Nazi POW camp
World War II prisoner-of-war escapes are a staple of adventure fiction. IMDB lists twenty-one...
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Category: History
Misjudgments and misunderstandings in World War II
Historians long debated the Great Man Theory of History attributed to the Scottish essayist Thomas...
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British espionage as the Empire faded into history
Six pivotal events set the course of history in the twentieth century. The emergence of the United...
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Uncovering the truth about Pearl Harbor
When you challenge the historical consensus fundamental to our understanding of the past,...
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Unmasking the mole in the CIA
According to most expert observers of the intelligence community, James Jesus Angleton (1917-87)...
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How people really lived in Medieval Europe
What comes first to mind when you think of Europe in the Middle Ages? Unending violence and...
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Repression, censorship, and official violence in the First Red Scare
On Sunday, October 9, 2022, the cover story in the New York Times Book Review featured Adam...
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Why the U.S. failed to speak out against Hitler’s rise
In the years 1933-41, a passion for isolationism gripped the American psyche, keeping President...
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Viewing humanity as a whole through the lens of history
Sixteen eighty-eight is familiar to many English-speakers as the year of Britain’s Glorious...
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A brief and bloody history of labor in America
Most general American history texts give short shrift to the rise of organized labor. And when...
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A World War II atlas from an American perspective
World War II continues to loom large in popular media today three-quarters of a century after the...
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The Holocaust viewed through the eyes of children
Amazon lists 4,000 books about the Holocaust. Half are nonfiction, such as Elie Wiesel’s...
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Debunking the myths about D Day and Normandy
History can deceive us. When we read about the major events of the past, they appear inevitable...
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World War II in full-color maps and photos
When I was very young, World War II was underway. I’d been born six months before Pearl...
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Explaining the Nazi seizure of power
Today, Northeim is a railroad town of some 29,000 people in northern Germany. But only about...
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