'The History Wars is very important. The book will sit on the shelves of libraries as a code stone to help people understand the motivations of players in today

From the "taming of the West" to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the portrayal of the past has become a battleground at the heart of American poli

An incisive overview of the current debate over the teaching of history in American schools examines the setting of controversial standards for history educatio

‘In 1993, Manning Clark came under severe (posthumous) attack in the pages of Quadrant by none other than Peter Ryan, who had published five of the six volume

Despite East Asia's economic growth, ghosts of history continue to trouble relations between the key countries of the region. Unhappy legacies of Japan's milita