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American Odyssey

REVIEW: ‘This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark’ by Craig Fehrman

A Revolution—If You Can Keep It

REVIEW: ‘Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution’ by Jonathan Turley

Europe's Painful Quest for Unity

REVIEW: 'Europe: A New History' by Roderick Beaton

A Politician Who Belongs to the Ages

REVIEW: 'Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln' by Matthew Pinsker

Some Soviets Were Less Equal Than Others

REVIEW: 'The Penny is Gone: Meditations of a Soviet Jew' by Emil Bezverkhny

This Emperor Had Clothes

REVIEW: ‘Meditations’ by Marcus Aurelius, translated by Aaron Poochigian

The Slavery Story You Won’t Learn in School

REVIEW: ‘Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World’ by Justin Marozzi

Harry Reid and the Art of Ruthlessness

REVIEW: ‘The Game Changer: How Harry Reid Remade the Rules and Showed Democrats How to Fight’ by Jon Ralston

Meet the Next Chair of the Harvard History Dept, Who Called Trump 'Narcissist White Supremacist Habitual Liar Lunatic’

Professor Maya Jasanoff brought fruit to anti-Israel encampment, joined lawsuit for Columbia’s Khalil

Wes Moore Says the KKK Chased His Great-Grandfather Out of South Carolina. Historical Records Tell a Different Story.

Moore's great-grandfather preached at a South Carolina church held in high regard by the white community, before he was transferred to Jamaica to succeed a prominent pastor who had unexpectedly died