New perspectives on how history is made
The stunning account of sexual harassment disclosed by the past president of the Southern Historical Association.
What this historian learned by reexamining Ruth’s life from a racial and gender perspective.
There was a sister ship. It was sailed south to plant a Puritan colony on an island off Central America.
It was the My Lai Massacre. It happened 50 years ago this week.
From one who tried it.
Reflections of a master historian.
In the 1790s even George Washington faced a tax rebellion. He put it down personally at the head of an army.
Probably not. (It was in the American Revolution.) But here’s why you should. It was a key to the victory at Yorktown.
He helped desegregate spring training.
Churchill and Lincoln provide a fascinating answer.
It was not nearly as devastating a military defeat for the Communists, nor as devastating a political defeat for the US government, as is imagined.
But for one stunning defeat in Aleppo they might well have succeeded.
Meeting him changed my life.
120 years ago this month newspapers put out a false story that led to the Spanish-American War.
It was the first and largest mass protest against the Nazis during World War II.
His name? Charles Grandison Finney.
Why it’s not rash to place him at the bottom this early in his presidency.
Haley went from a blacklist to beatitude.
What historians are saying.
Common interpretations of Jewish and Christian sources have oversimplified the story, creating more confusion than clarity.
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