The history of immigration policy in America reflects a legacy of racial exclusion, putting the lie to the founding myth that we’re a nation that’s always been welcoming to the outsider.
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Review: A Concise History of the Russian Revolution
Richard Pipes’ primer covers the waning years of tsarism in Russia, the ensuing Bolshevik Revolution, and Lenin’s rise to power.
David Barton’s Monument of Lies
A Christian scholar reviews pseudo-historian David Barton’s book on Thomas Jefferson — and finds it doesn’t hold water.
Review: Guns, Germs, and Steel
According to Diamond, it merely was adventitious that Eurasians possessed the guns, germs, and steel to conquer foreign lands, for it was their indigenous proximity to an ecologically diverse landmass that best explains their success.
A History of Conflict
An enterprising team created an historical heatmap of the world’s major conflicts past and present, proving that a picture is worth (so much) more than a thousand words.
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