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Crary of the North…and South
by Tom Clavin It was on May 3, 1952, that a plane landed on the North Pole. Specifically, the aircraft was a ski-modified U.S. Air Force C-47. The pilot was 33-year-old William...
The Urban Upwelling
Photo by Transformer18, under Creative Commons 2.0 license. This post originally appeared in the November 2015 issue of The American Historian. In late September 2015 a video...
The Myth Debunked: Did Japan Not Invade America Because of Gun Owners?
The attack on Pearl Harbor remains one of the most infamous events in American history. In the aftermath, a popular belief emerged that the reason Japan did not invade the United...
âThe New Wayâ: How American Refugee Policies Changed Hmong Religious Life
This post originally appeared in the November 2018 issue of The American Historian. Paja Thaoâs arrival in the United States in 1984 marked the end of a long and painful...
Meet the White House Plumbers
by Laura Dail and Matthew Krogh HBO’s new miniseries White House Plumbers imagines the story of how political saboteurs E. Howard Hunt (Woody Harrelson) and G. Gordon Liddy...
Activist Businesses: The New Leftâs Surprising Critique of Postwar Consumer Culture
This post originally appeared in the May 2017 issue of The American Historian. âWhy does youth consider Big Business âimmoralâ?â the editors of Fortune magazine asked...
A Long Journey Home
by Tom Clavin During my recent book tour promoting the release of Follow Me to Hell, I met many book-loving people and participated in fun events. Along the way, I heard some...