HISTORY Classics: Barbarians

HISTORY Classics: Barbarians

History will never forget their reign of terror. For nearly a millennium, barbarian hordes rose up and swept across Asia, Europe, and Africa, pillaging towns and sacking empires. But who were these barbarians, seemingly devoted [...]

Hitler's Lost Plan

Hitler's Lost Plan

In 1958, in a sweltering, converted torpedo factory in Alexandria, Virginia, historian Gerhard L. Weinberg was combing through massive stacks of documents that the U.S. had captured from Nazi Germany. In a faded green box, [...]

Fall From Grace

Fall From Grace

With the recitation of three provocative words–”God hates fags”–Reverend Fred Phelps ignited a firestorm of controversy in sleepy Topeka, Kansas, a maelstrom that has continued with his aggressively polarizing rhetoric on such heated issues as [...]