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The 1948 War for Independence, also known as the first Arab-Israeli War, was the culmination of a political movement that arguably started in the late ...  View More

Leadership, an invisible, intangible, unmeasurable quality, can make all the difference between success and failure in politics, and between victory a ...  View More

Was H.H. Holmes Chicago's first serial killer? Was he the devil in the White City? If you want to know the answers to these questions and more about t ...  View More

Today’s political norm breaking and violence, alarming as they are, have been seen before, especially during tumultuous periods in American history. U ...  View More

For almost every delivered speech, there exists an undelivered opposite. These "second speeches" provide alternative histories of what could have been ...  View More

Is the Holocaust beyond explanation? Northwestern Professor (Emeritus) Peter Hayes’ Why? Explaining the Holocaust (W.W. Norton, 2017) explores one of ...  View More

In the summer of 1940, the future of the world hung by a thread. With France facing defeat and British forces pressed back to the Channel, there were ...  View More

Every American generation, we have been told, gets its own Abraham Lincoln biography. Jon Meacham—winner of the Pulitzer Prize, distinguished scholar ...  View More

We are living in a rapidly changing and perilous world. International and U.S. policy concerns are so interlaced and changing that they need to be con ...  View More