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The Many Ends of the Vietnam War
April 30, 1975 is commonly understood to be the dramatic endpoint of the Vietnam War. For the victorious Vietnamese, what they called the liberation of Saigon marked a âtotal...
The Windsors at War
by Alexander Larman When I finished writing The Crown in Crisis, the book that has become the first part of my Windsors trilogy, I was asked two questions more than any other....
Old Houses of the West
by Sandra Dallas Novelist Sandra Dallas joins us to discuss the inspiration behind her latest book, Where Coyotes Howl, a vivid and deeply affecting ode to the early...
Bat Back in Dodge City
by Tom Clavin There were four lawmen who participated in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in October 1881—the town marshal, Virgil Earp, and the three men he had...
How the Old Can Learn from the Young
This post originally appeared in the May 2016 issue of The American Historian. How can the historical study of aging benefit from what historians have learned by studying...
Heard Round the World: A War Begins
by Jack Kelly April 19th is Patriots’ Day in Massachusetts. It marks the anniversary of the battles at Lexington and Concord, which touched off the Revolutionary War. It’s also...
What’s in the March Issue of the Journal of American History?
The March issue of the Journal of American History is now available online and in print. Included are articles by Emmanuelle Perez Tisserant, William Robert Billups, and Lori A....