Views staff writer Mark Butler argues that Trump’s covert authorization in Venezuela risks escalating into another costly ...

This costly conflict spanned generations—and its brutal legacy endures. But why did the bloodshed go on for so long?

When Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered the cancellation of any official observance of “cultural awareness” months in the military service, I immediately wondered what it would mean for the ...

No historian should be able to answer the question on good history without a degree of trepidation, ambivalence, and ...

Burns’s 12-hour documentary about our national origin story is landing in the middle of a culture war. Yes, it’s complicated.

Only a handful of Vietnam War movies have won Best Picture at the Oscars, including Platoon and The Deer Hunter, but which is ...

If violence erupts, that will provide an excuse to send troops to crush "insurrectionists." That strategy might work, but ...

When Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered the cancellation of any official observance of “cultural awareness” months in the military service, I immediately wondered what it would ...

Next July marks 250 years since a handful of upstart American colonies declared independence from Britain. A war was fought, as we all know, and almost immediately after it was over, Richard Bell ...

Nations are, as the Anglo-Irish historian Benedict Anderson put it, “imagined communities”; they only exist because we ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns, in his latest documentary series, tackles what he calls ‘the most important event in the history of the ...

US interventions in the region have led to coups, revolutions and what some analysts are now calling illegal extrajudicial ...