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"The past is another country; they do things differently there." Inward Empire explores the role of ideas and ideology in American history -- how the surface of actions and events can be sha...
Something strange happened in America at the turn of the 20th century: a society based on individualism began to celebrate identical, replic...
In 1968, Jerry Rubin was sure that the baby boomers were the vanguard of a second American Revolution. A leader of the countercultural Yippi...
In November 1963, a faction of South Vietnamese generals overthrew and assassinated Ngo Dinh Diem with the support of the Kennedy administra...
After destroying his rivals in the Battle of Saigon, President Diem sets out to build a new nation in South Vietnam. On the one hand he offe...
In the 1950s, most Americans viewed the Cold War as a battle between freedom and tyranny. There was just one problem: how to explain allianc...
Back in Saigon in 1954, Ngo Dinh Diem becomes premier of a country shattered by war and partition. With reunification elections looming, Die...
For nine years at the height of the Cold War, America's global crusade against communism rested on the shoulders of Vietnamese leader Ngo Di...
After sending the Molly Maguires to the scaffold in 1877, Pinkerton's National Detective Agency plunged headlong into America's labor confli...
Pinkerton's National Detective Agency was 19th-century America's premier private police force, the leader of a flourishing industry that off...
In a country as big and diverse as America, stories are crucially important to our sense of common identity. But where do those stories come...
When a railroad employee walks off the job in Baltimore, it triggers a violent chain of events that engulfs the industrialized North. From P...
If you think 2016 is a turbulent year for the United States, try 1877. The country is, as one observer puts it, "on the edge of a volcano."...
William F. Cody - better known as Buffalo Bill - did more than any other person to translate the history of the American West into the langu...
Ambrose Bierce was a Civil War veteran and the author of the most visceral and unsettling fiction to come out of the most violent conflict i...
Forty years after the Pequot War, a new conflict threatens to tear New England apart. Decades of uneasy coexistence between Puritan colonist...
The year is 1620. It is a time of upheaval and apocalyptic fears in England. In the midst of economic disaster, poverty, crime, and ever-wor...