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David Krugler, the author of 1919, The Year of Racial Violence, examines the legacy of racial violence in America that has culminated in debates and riots over the Eric Garner and Michael Brown cases. Racial relations almost 100 years ago offer new insight.
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Bernard Rosenthal, the editor of Records of the Salem-Witch Hunt, sheds light on America's most famous witch trials and the legacy of fascination that has become impossible to escape.
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David Woodward, the author of The American Army and the First World War, explains why the United States was so late to participate in the Great War and why the war was one of the most devastating the U.S. army ever faced.
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The American Army, though late to the battlefield, was a key to Allied victory in the Great War. In The American Army and the First World War, David Woodward explores how a modern US Army was formed and how the Doughboys shaped the outcome of the war.
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"Food Will Win the War!" the U.S. Food Administration proclaimed. Instructing the folks at home to cut back on their wheat and meat intake meant more food to fuel the soldiers overseas. But how to make it through those Meatless Tuesdays and Wheatless Wednesdays before 1920? Take a stab at these recipes for the experience of WWI at home.
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The author of The United States, Italy and the Origins of Cold War: Waging Political Warfare discusses how the case of Italy in the early years of the cold war helped set the stage for over half a century of U.S. interventions abroad.
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Robert E. May, the author of Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics, sat down with us to discuss the complex causes of the Civil War, including the little-studied debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas about slavery’s expansion into Latin American territory. His book was finalist for the 2014 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize.
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The Great War was the first global war and one of the deadliest conflicts in history. The high cost of World War I, which left 10 million soldiers dead, is one of its most enduring legacies.
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