Tag: History

This is the central programming services division of Voice of America radio in New York, seen Feb. 27, 1953. These men and women write news, commentaries and dramatic programs for VOA.

Voice of America’s forgotten Mr. Joneses

Ted Lipien · August 9, 2020 4:35 am

Though more terrible in the moment, the nuclear option was at least limited and avoided a street massacre of conscripted civilians. (AP Photo/Stanley Troutman)

Truman’s decision saved a million lives

William D. Balgord · August 9, 2020 4:00 am

‘Young heretics’: Ex-Oxford scholar launches podcast teaching ‘great’ history of West

Anthony Leonardi · August 7, 2020 9:10 pm

Beltway Confidential

Brent Scowcroft was the best national security adviser the US has ever had

Daniel DePetris · August 7, 2020 5:36 pm

Beltway Confidential

Trump is no Nixon, Reagan, Goldwater, or Wallace

David Davenport · August 7, 2020 4:00 am

Magazine - Your Land

The mushroom cloud in the rear window

Timothy P. Carney · August 7, 2020 3:00 am

Magazine - Life & Arts

The original populists

Robert Gerwarth · August 7, 2020 3:00 am

Party music

Tevi Troy · August 7, 2020 3:00 am

Pictured are President Trump, left, and Joe Biden, right.

History professor who predicted Trump 2016 win forecasts Biden victory in 2020

Anthony Leonardi · August 6, 2020 1:46 pm

Beltway Confidential

Seventy-five years after Hiroshima, Paul Tibbets reminds us of our duty

Kendall Wingrove · August 6, 2020 4:00 am

The presidents’ club doesn’t want you in it

Noemie Emery · August 4, 2020 1:31 pm

This is a photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt taken on Jan. 19, 1937.

A social justice erasure of national heroes would be unkind to FDR

Victor Schwartz · August 4, 2020 12:00 am