Remember Watergate?
Remember Watergate?That was the scandal which brought Richard Nixon down after it was disclosed that he or his minions, among other things: spied on Edward Kennedy, played a dirty trick on Edmund...
View ArticleRemember Watergate?
Remember Watergate?That was the scandal which brought Richard Nixon down after it was disclosed that he or his minions, among other things: spied on Edward Kennedy, played a dirty trick on Edmund...
View ArticleAnn Coulter's Betrayal of the Anti-Communist Historians
Normally, I would have no interest in the writings or talk-show appearances of Ann Coulter, and I will stipulate that I have not read her latest contribution, a volume titled Treason. However, I have...
View ArticleDid Nixon Approve the Watergate Break-In?
STATEMENT BY THE RICHARD NIXON LIBRARY AND BIRTHPLACE FOUNDATION[Released July 30, 2003]In recent days, the Associated Press, Reuters, the Scripps Howard New Service, and others have published...
View ArticleHow True to History is Tom Cruise's "The Last Samurai"?
From the opening voiceover and title to the final scene, The Last Samurai is an historical disaster.
View ArticleMilitary: The Wrong War
When the Muslim terrorists struck on September 11, uncounted numbers of reporters and television commentators rushed into print and sound comparing the awful consequences to Pearl Harbor. Never has so...
View ArticleDid Hitler have Jewish Soldiers?
Adolf Hitler is thought to have made war on all Jews, even people who were only "partly Jewish." Mr. Rigg in his new book calls this assumption into question.Throughout Hitler's political career, he...
View ArticleWhat Do W. and Woodrow Wilson Really Have in Common?
President Bush is presiding over what is fast becoming a foreign policy disaster. The war in Iraq is a quagmire. The Iraqi constitution faces an uncertain future. American policy appears to be based...
View Article7 Myths About Islam
One of the few positive effects of 9/11 has been renewed American interest in Islam and the Middle East. Unfortunately, much of the information disseminated in the media about those topics is ignorant...
View ArticleThe Truth About Thanksgiving Is that the Debunkers Are Wrong
Setting people straight about Thanksgiving myths has become as much a part of the annual holiday as turkey, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie.
View ArticleWhy Does the NYT Continue to Cite Historian S.L.A. Marshall After the Paper...
"Studies by Medical Corps psychiatrists of combat fatigue cases ... found that fear of killing, rather than fear of being killed, was the most common cause of battle failure, and that fear of failure...
View ArticleThe Fictitious Suppression of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle
When a small, Tucson-based publisher of anarchist and atheist literature called See Sharp Press issued a new edition in 2003 of Upton Sinclair’s famous novel The Jungle, it was not especially...
View ArticleDid Truman Really Oppose the Soviet Union's Decision to Enter the War Against...
The following letter was sent to the Journal of Military History, which published a shortened version. To the Editor:The old saying tells us that “you’re never too old to learn” --- and it’s true!...
View ArticleHe Has Gassed His Own People
"Saddam Hussein is a man who is willing to gas his own people, willing to use weapons of mass destruction against Iraq citizens. "--President Bush, March 22, 2002"As he said, any person that would gas...
View ArticleDoes Ann Coulter Know What She's Talking About?
In her latest book, Treason, Ann Coulter, turning conventional history on its head, claims that Joe McCarthy was the victim of a witch-hunt. Does she know what she's talking about? Below are excerpts...
View ArticleDisney's Hidalgo: A New Hollywood Low
Response of Anthony B. Toth to John Fusco (posted 2-28-04)The irony is too delicious to pass without comment: the screenwriter whose "based on a true story" horse race that never took place rises in...
View ArticleThe Real "Obama before Obama"
Recently, HNN ran a breaking news story published by the Washington Post entitled “The ‘Obama before Obama’ ” by Kevin Merida. The article begins with the story of the purportedly first African...
View ArticleSorry George, the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence Was Probably a Myth
On July 3rd an article by respected journalist George Will appeared in the Washington Post, called "Independence Days," about the citizens of Mecklenburg County in North Carolina declaring independence...
View ArticleA White House Tea and Michelle Obama
Eighty-one years ago this summer, an African American woman from Chicago’s South Side—just a couple miles from where Michelle Robinson Obama grew up—made national headlines. Her
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