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In the silent, empty desert south of Tucson lies a little-known monument to the cold war: the Titan Missile Museum, once an ICBM base, now open to the public. Here [...]

This article discusses the book "An Eye for an Eye: The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945," by John Sack. The book provides firsthand accounts of concentration camps in postwar Poland, where, Sack says, Jews tortured, starved and killed innocent German women, old men and children. Sack claims the death toll was 60,000-80,000. As a result, several million Germans were expelled from their hometowns to make room for Polish settlers in one of modern history's greatest ethnic cleansings. Certainly some Communists from Jewish backgrounds did mistreat and murder Germans in Polish camps after the war.

Frank Sinatra, who died May 14 at 82, wasn't always a Republican. In 1945, when he was thin and 30, he won a special Academy Award for The House I [...]

The article focuses on the amusement parks with historical attractions. Disney's America, the theme park scheduled to open outside Washington, D.C. in 1998, will feature historical exhibits that make American Civil War and the Great Depression fun and exciting for the whole family. While Disney claims the new park will be different from anything built previously by the company," Disney's America will not be the company's first effort to turn American history into amusement-park rides. The article focuses on the amusement parks with historical attractions. Disney's America, the theme park scheduled to open outside Washington, D.C. in 1998, will feature historical exhibits that make American Civil War and the Great Depression "fun and exciting for the whole family. While Disney claims the new park will be different from anything built previously by the company," Disney's America will not be the company's first effort to turn American history into amusement-park rides. From opening day of the first Disneyland in Anaheim in 1955, Walt Disney, founder of Disneyland, made it a point to teach American history to its millions of visitors a year-primarily in "Frontierland," which celebrates the cliche that the men who wore cowboy hats embodied America's strength and virtue.

An interview with author Jonathan Lethem is presented about his 2013 novel "Dissident Gardens." Topics include how Lethem took inspiration from his grandmother, who protested against Nazism in 1938, the desegregation of professional baseball, and the Occupy Wall Street protest movement. The Communist movement in the U.S. during the 20th century is a focus.

Looking Back, Moving Ahead A debate over the meaning of the 1960s rages in the new student movement. For Amy Eppler, a 1986 Yale Law School graduate, the 1960s provide [...]

Presents letters to the editor. Comment on the article "Footnotes to History," by Jon Wiener, published in the February 16, 1985 issue of "The Nation"; Facts regarding the book "The Collapse of the Weimar Republic," by David Abraham; Fraudulent aspect in the book.

Not Necessarily The First Lady Nancy and Ronald Reagan met, they have repeatedly said, when she was blacklisted by mistake in the early 1950s after having been confused with another [...]