The Political Giant the West Forgot
Early in 1960, when James Baldwin visited Tallahassee, Florida, to report on a sit-in for civil rights by young African Americans, he wondered why they had not been cowed and ...
Tag: History
With Territory Comes Torment
In December 1899, John Barrett, a former minister to Siam (today Thailand) who had spent months accompanying the U.S. Navy squadron that defeated the Spanish fleet in the Philippines, wrote ...
Bowling alleys, movie theaters, and a $200 million ballroom: What first families have added to the White House throughout history
The Obamas in the White House's movie theater, originally built by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1942.Pete Souza/White HousePresident Donald Trump is adding a $200 million ballroom to the White House.On ...
The Making of Mamdani
When Zohran Mamdani surged onto the political scene in New York earlier this year and won the city’s Democratic Party primary, many wondered what kind of leader he would make ...
The Hiroshima Exhibition the World Wasn’t Allowed to See
This August will mark the 80th anniversary of the United States’ dropping the atomic bomb on Japan. On Aug. 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber called the Enola Gay carried out ...
How the Atomic Bombs Reshaped the World
“‘Why is it night already? Why did our house fall down? What happened?’ The befuddlement of 5-year-old Myeko Nakamura moments after the first atomic bomb fell at 8:15 on the ...
Life Returns to Palmyra
PALMYRA, Syria—Not long after the Islamic State arrived, 15-year-old Abd al-Hamid al-Ali realized he had to escape. It was 2015, the zenith of Syria’s ruinous civil war. Palmyra, a modern ...
The Most Successful CIA Operation You’ve Never Heard of
One August day in 1951, a giant fleet of balloons sailed into Czechoslovakia. It must have been a strange sight, 3,000 rubber bags floating overhead before bursting open and raining ...
The Novels We’re Reading in August
The dog days of summer are upon us, so naturally, we’re reading two novels featuring man’s best friend, set in an 18th-century English village and modern-day Tbilisi. And if you’re ...
Pharaohs, Maharajas, and the Making of a Multipolar World
As the era of U.S. primacy comes to an end, academics and policymakers have quite naturally been debating what comes next. Will the emergence of a multipolar world prove inherently ...
