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Theodore H. White (Bai Xiude): The American Journalist Who Changed Political Reporting and Revealed Wartime China Few foreign journalists le...

  The Pragmatic Betrayal: Hitler’s Strategic Pivot in 1937 In the mid-1930s, the relationship between Nazi Germany and Nationalist China was...

  The U-869 Mystery and the Myth of Hitler’s American Exile The discovery of the German U-boat  U-869  off the coast of New Jersey in 1991 s...

  The 1943 Bengal Famine: Assessing British Imperial Responsibility Abstract The Bengal Famine of 1943 resulted in the deaths of an estimate...

  The Gentle Dictator’s Costly Courtesy After the dust of World War II settled in 1945, a bizarre tug-of-war erupted over the territory of H...

  The Yalta Betrayal: When Sovereignty is Just Currency In February 1945, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin gathered at Yalta to carve up the...

  The Hydraulic Scales of Survival: When the State Chooses Between a Scalpel and a Monster Human beings are territorial primates who, when b...

  The Concrete Carcass: How Two Soldiers Built a Kingdom Out of Bomb Craters and Lost It to Wi-Fi Human beings are opportunistic scavengers ...

  The State-Sponsored Diet: When Tyranny Tastes Like Carrots Human beings are naturally lazy, opportunistic foragers who will happily gorge ...

  The Reluctant Empire: When the Bill Exceeds the Blood In the myth-making of history, we like to imagine World War II as a crusade where th...

  The Roman Numeral Trap: When History Meets the Teleprompter It is a moment that satisfies every cynical bone in our collective bodies: a U...

  Siam and Occupied China: Wartime Livelihoods under Divergent Japanese Spheres During World War II, everyday life in Siam was constrained b...

Siam’s Strategic Balance: How Pragmatism Preserved Prosperity Amid Pacific War Turmoil During World War II, Siam (modern-day Thailand) demon...