New perspectives on how history is made
Myths stop us from conceding the truth.
And it’s we love him still.
“Tyldesley’s Law”: “Any theory about the behavior, beliefs and abilities of the ancient Egyptians, no matter how unlikely, will be accepted as truth by someone.”
Why did they arrive at different conclusions?
He’s getting a bum rap from critics.
Tweets about 9-11 that HNN researchers come across, in reverse chronological order.
A new collection of her writings shows she’s still relevant.
How a kid who grew-up in Florida decided to become a historian of 17th century Stuart England.
What made him a great leader in the Revolution was his willingness to change strategy mid-way through the war.
History's never been more relevant. That's something all of us need to acknowledge, even the president.
Even by the standards of his own day, his operations on black slave women were abhorrent.
All around the world statues of historic figures are falling. Removing them is just like editing inconvenient ideas from textbooks.
Rather than fight the publication of Hitler’s memoir, these French anti-Nazis raced to distribute it themselves.
Hopefully they’ll do better next year on the 50th anniversary.
50 years later, we know.
His new book is “The Making of a Racist.”
The Voyagers launched 20 years after Sputnik. They continue 40 years later. They span 67% of the entire space age.
It was thanks to a philanthropist who also paid for a park in honor of Booker T. Washington.
He was the First Founding Father – and he believed blacks deserved to be free.
That’s just how Americans felt in 1945, too.
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