Pakistan has sometimes been important to the U.S., sometimes not. Understanding the shifts of the past can help Islamabad plan for the future. Writing about Pakistan-U.S. relations is like composing a ...

, they say, is written by the victors. But here's the uncomfortable truth: it's also written by the forgetful, the biased, and the dramatic. Some of 's most consequential conflicts have been so ...

History often paints with a broad brush, dividing people into villains and heroes without much nuance. Yet the real story is far more complicated than black-and-white judgments. Some figures we’ve ...

When Rasool Berry grew up hearing about Juneteenth, he heard the same false story most Americans do: That the holiday celebrated the date, June 19, 1865, when Galveston, Texas, finally received word ...

An undated portrait thought to depict Bennelong, signed “W.W.” now in the Dixson Galleries of the State Library of New South Wales. Wikimedia Commons The natives of new Holland are perhaps the ...

Journalist Dave Cullen has examined school shootings and their aftermath in his books "Columbine" and "Parkland." Now, he's reporting on the misunderstood history of gun laws. Then, even when people ...

He recognized the enduring role of religion and fretted over the persistence of nationalism, but he underestimated both. ‘What we may be witnessing," wrote Francis Fukuyama in The National Interest 30 ...