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Ending the Forgotten War: The Korean War Armistice at Seventy
On July 27th, 1953, the Armistice Agreement for the Restoration of the South Korean State established an uneasy ceasefire, ending a war that the U.S. had fought, but never...
âFree Our Siblings, Free Ourselves:â Historicizing Trans Activism in the U.S., 1952â1992
This article originally appeared in the May 2019 issue of The American Historian. Recent years have seen a surge in attention to transgender politics. Famouslyâand...
The Centennial Fire
by Chris Wimmer The first World’s Fair on American soil ran from May 10 to November 10, 1876. Millions of visitors flocked to Philadelphia to see the show. But two months before...
The Iraq Warâs Legacies for Women in Combat
On March 20, 2005, two years to the day after U.S. forces invaded Iraq, Army Specialist Ashley Pullen drove a Humvee in a routine patrol south of Baghdad. Pullen was a member of...
War and Reconciliation
by Tom Clavin Douglas “Pete” Peterson was born in Omaha and raised in Nebraska and Iowa. He enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in 1954, attaining flight pilot and instructor status...
In Pursuit of Merchant Status: The Migration Strategy of Early Twentieth Chinese Restaurant Owners under Chinese Exclusion
This post originally appeared in the 2022 issue of The American Historian. In 1921, dozens of investors celebrated the grand opening of Chin Leeâs Restaurant in New York....
The Rise of the Weimar Republic
by Susan Ronald In the following excerpt from Hitler’s Aristocrats, author Susan Ronald discusses the Weimar Republic and the political environment that enabled the rise of...