What Students Need to Know about WWI
Ask any British student about the Somme or any French or German student about Verdun and you are likely...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
What Students Need to Know about WWI
A nation must think before it acts.
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The Importance of Early American Military History
Early American military history is too often relegated to just a few early pages of military history textbooks or...
What Hath God Wrought
When I signed on to do my volume in the Oxford History of the United States, several volumes had...
Economic Influence on China’s Relations with the West
In the Cold War years, the literature on China’s development focused on two themes. One was that trade and...
Teaching about Slavery
Slavery lasted for 250 years just in the territory of the United States, and for half a millennium in...
The Technological Revolution
Most high schools and even colleges and universities do not offer courses on technology in America, which is extraordinary...
America in the Civil War Era: A History Institute for Teachers
Throes of Democracy Walter A. McDougall, professor of international relations at University of Pennsylvania and author of Throes of...
Ten Common Myths about Women in the Civil War and How to Dispel Them
Twenty-five years ago, when I began to contemplate a dissertation topic concerning women’s work on Civil War battlefields, a...
China’s Legal Encounter with the West
China’s legal encounter with the West began unhappily in the first half of the nineteenth century. At the close...
Honest Abe: Abraham Lincoln and the Moral Character
No story in American history has captured the popular imagination better than that of Abraham Lincoln’s youth. A poor...