Spinning Clio

Ben Feller looks at how history textbooks are treating the relatively recent history of the Clinton impeachment. The most commonly used te...

Joshua London's piece comparing contemporary terrorism to the Barbary Pirates of old is a useful piece of historical comparison. London...

I skimmed Joshua London's NRO piece on the Barbary Pirates in which he compared them to modern-day Islamic terrorists, but have put off...

On the upcoming edition of "60 Minutes," Actor Morgan Freeman opines about Black History Month : Morgan Freeman thinks the whole ...

Jonathan Dresner is host of the latest History Carnival and also has a nice little treatise (via Sharon Howard ) on the benefit of having...

Fred Siegel has a review of Sean Wilentz's The Rise of American Democracy up at Slate (via Cliopatria ) in which he question's Wile...

In the latest Policy Review , Frederick W. Kagan writes It is becoming increasingly an article of faith that the insurgency in Vietnam is si...

In Glenn Reynolds' review of Robert Bruegmann's Sprawl: A Compact History , he explains that Bruegmann is turning the conventional ...

Jonathan Rauch reviews Senator Rick Santorum's It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good : Santorum wrestles intelligently, o...

PROEM: Ralph Luker has offered some clarification that, post title notwithstanding, the post he put up at Cliopatria is referring only to ...

In " Father Knew Best ", Paul C. Nagel offers what I think is a good example of a commentary piece that effectively and properly u...

Laura James has the 21st installment of the HC up!

If there is no limbo , where will all of the great moderates go?

Rick Richman compare's mid-war speeches between President Bush and Winston Churchill. Probably the most sound historical lesson that ca...

Glenn Reynolds first offered that the Valerie Plame affair may actually be a reverse-Watergate "with the press, not the White House, k...

Jonah Goldberg wrote a column recently in which he compared contemporary anti-war, Bush-"haters" (moonbats) to FDR nemesis Clare B...

Mudville Gazette has a post up about the Iraq War, 1990-2003. The goal of this effort has been to provide a list of facts and quotes, witho...

Just thinking out loud. In " Rule America? " Jonathan Last lays a substantial portion of the failure of the British Empire at the ...

Well, I see that my series Introduction to Historical Method has been nominated for Best Series of Posts for the Cliopatria History Bloggi...

This is how the New York Times ' Anita Gates describes the History Channel's two-part series The Crusades: Crescent and the Cross :...