List of History articles
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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 topshot from a video game, in a sandy area with multiple soldiers. 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?
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The wreckage of Dag Hammarskjold’s plane What Really Happened to Dag Hammarskjold’s Plane
More than 60 years after the deaths of the U.N. chief and his team, the victims’ families believe the answer may lie in Washington’s and London’s archives.
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A man lights a candle in an Orthodox Christian church in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 24. Russia and Ukraine Are Trapped in Medieval Myths
A shared past underpins—and worsens—the conflict.
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Prague residents surround Soviet tanks in Prague on Aug. 21, 1968 as the Soviet-led invasion by the Warsaw Pact armies crushed the so called Prague Spring reform in former Czechoslovakia. False-Flag Invasions Are a Russian Specialty
Ukraine wouldn’t be the first place that Russia’s military started a war by faking an attack.
