Richard Drake

Richard Drake holds the Lucile Speer Research Chair in Politics and History at the University of Montana. Among his publications are Charles Austin Beard: The Return of the Master Historian of American Imperialism and The Education of an Anti-Imperialist: Robert La Follette and U.S. Expansion.

On Pankaj Mishra’s “The World After Gaza: A History”

February 28, 2025 BY Richard Drake

D. F. Fleming’s and Arnold Toynbee’s Lessons of Russian History as a Way of Understanding the War in Ukraine

January 19, 2024 BY Richard Drake

The Nuremberg Charter and the War in Gaza

November 7, 2023 BY Richard Drake

Gabriel Kolko on the Foreign Policy Consequences of Conservatism’s Triumph

September 8, 2023 BY Richard Drake

Charles Austin Beard, a Racist Historian?

February 10, 2023 BY Richard Drake

Some Historical Background for an Economic Interpretation of the War in Ukraine

September 23, 2022 BY Richard Drake

The American Cause in Ukraine: Advancing Freedom or the Course of Empire?

May 18, 2022 BY Richard Drake