history
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PublishedJanuary 6, 2022
Commentary: The U.S. has long sought to exploit Guantánamo’s legal contradictions
For 20 years, the United States has held detainees at Guantanamo. The base’s problems are even older.
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PublishedJanuary 2, 2022
Book review: The extraordinary heroism of a single woman saved countless lives
Robert Mrazek's book tells the riveting story of a little-known, exceptionally courageous Filipino woman who risked her own life to save American POWs during World World War II.
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PublishedJanuary 2, 2022
Bedside table: A dose of storytelling makes the history lessons stick
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PublishedDecember 30, 2021
Commentary: White supremacists are using an old playbook, but so are the lawyers fighting them
We have shown how to use the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 against extremists.
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PublishedDecember 26, 2021
As Washington’s farming techniques evolved, so did his views on slavery
What the first president's own documents reveal about his life and work as a farmer.
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PublishedDecember 26, 2021
Insight: Don’t wait for the new year to make a new start
Benjamin Franklin, America’s first self-help guru, thought of improvement as an ongoing project, not as sudden change.
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PublishedDecember 19, 2021
The danger of American nostalgia for World War II
Romanticizing that war has led us to seek another just as "good," Elizabeth Samet writes.
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PublishedDecember 9, 2021
Commentary: A boycott of the Olympics won’t force China to change
Neither a diplomatic boycott, nor refusing to send American athletes, will improve Beijing’s human rights record.
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PublishedDecember 7, 2021
Our View: Bob Dole lived a great American life
The tough partisan warrior who also valued compromise with his adversaries showed patriotic values that are missing from today’s politics.
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PublishedNovember 28, 2021
Bedside table: A muse of another species
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