New perspectives on how history is made
Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine – And Monroe? Why this historian thinks they should be grouped together.
They had rights and legal safeguards that it took women over eight hundred years of hard struggle to win back after the Norman Conquest.
No. T. E. Lawrence wasn’t the only key European player.
It was 1983 and the Soviets nearly ordered a full pre-emptive nuclear strike against the US and Western Europe.
The Carter White House advisor argues his case in his newly-published memoirs.
It’s U.S. Grant.
An Interview with Georgetown University’s Maurice Jackson.
Don’t facts matter any more?
A survey indicates the answer is yes.
It was that Oregon in the 20th century was still the Wild Wild West where anything goes.
No one knows. But because sex fascinates and it sells, Monticello is ripping up floors and preparing to establish a new tourist attraction.
It's the Pulitzer that went to Alex Haley’s tarnished blockbuster, “Roots.”
They call it world history, but it’s really just Western Civ. Case study: Massachusetts.
No one’s talking about the violence.
A half-century boom in the fur trade that decimated California otters.
“To study history is dangerous in a place like China, past and present.”
It happened twenty years ago when Bill Clinton launched missiles in the midst of his sex scandal.
The new battleground is not in some basement or backyard where hate is brewing. It’s not on the street. It’s in your phone and on your screen.
Here's why they aren't celebrating this attempt at a usable past.
The weeping time does not end with weeping; it ends with triumph.
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