History
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This piece appeared in the Sunday Times on 21 June, 2026 In January 1975, President Gerald Ford began his annual address to Congress with a disconcertingly honest line: “The state of our Union is not good.” Traumatised by the rolling crises of Watergate and Vietnam and by the violence and soul-searching of the civil rights…
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I am delighted to announce that my latest book has just been published by Oxford University Press. You can buy a copy here. Here are the opening pages: As soon as the guns had fallen silent on July 3, 1863, Gettysburg became a place of the imagination. The three-day battle fought across the gentle ridges…
Adam Smith: Historian 