History Unfolding

A few weeks ago, writing on American imperialism, I promised a post on the anti-imperialist tradition. Here it is, drawing on a remarkable ...

This post will begin with a somewhat lengthy digression, but please bear with me--I think it will be one of the more important ones I have d...

For about 45 years, from Nasser's seizure of power in Egypt in the early 1950s until 9/11, the United States essentially lived with the ...

A Fourth Turning or Crisis inevitably has a large emotional component. We cannot say exactly why accumulated anger seems to burst forth eve...

I have spent the last two weeks at the National Archives in Washington researching US preparation for, and entry into, the Second World War,...