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William Faulkner famously wrote, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” That could describe some of the recent historical discourse on the presidential campaign trail. First came Republican ...

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Howell Raines, a former executive editor of the New York Times, is the author of “Silent Cavalry: How Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta — and Then Got Written Out of History.” A ...

As President Donald Trump looks at ordering US Navy ships to escort oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, for naval analysts and historians, there’s a distinct feeling of “been there, done that.” ...

Elon Musk says he is fascinated by warfare and history books because he can learn lessons from them. In an interview with Mathias Döpfner, the CEO of Insider's parent company, Axel Springer, the tech ...

On the evening of February 21, 2022, three days before Russian forces began the largest land invasion on the European continent since World War II, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave an angry ...

For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953 that has long been overshadowed by World War II, Vietnam, and the War on Terror But as Bruce ...

Women walk by a memorial wall for the fallen defenders of Ukraine in downtown Kyiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 7. (Daniel Cole/AP) Timothy Snyder is the Levin professor of history at Yale University and the ...

It is remarkable that yet another American administration has, in the face of scant understanding of far-off societies, willfully overlooked the bitter lessons of history in trying to overthrow brutal ...