New perspectives on how history is made
They both happened this month. And they were an imperialist’s dream.
The World War 2 film that made the Memphis Belle famous (and also helped sell war bonds).
Most Americans come from Northern Ireland including Ulysses Grant and Stonewall Jackson.
Ten times in American history death could well have altered the course of events.
Eager to escape the White House bubble many have exposed themselves to danger.
The British live by and large in the radical new world Attlee created at the end of the war.
The people who turned Crispus Attucks into a hero of the Revolution.
The curious case of Carolyn Bryant.
Now everybody wants to be right with Tubman.
What’s his legacy 100 years after his birth?
A skeptic argues that there’s no evidence Hemings even lived at Monticello.
He came in as #39. Here’s why he deserves better.
An interview with the Pulitzer Prize winning author of “Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America” and many other books.
By being fair and nonpartisan he’s managed to remain House Historian since 2010.
Claims that he wasn’t ignore mounds of evidence uncovered in recent years.
The unbelievable story of San Francisco’s 1856 Vigilance Committee.
It happened on December 17, 1944. 11 were slaughtered.
We have each, in different ways, found ourselves in the crosshairs of right-wing attacks in the past several weeks.
It’s not an exaggeration to call him our greatest statesman.
This is one family’s story.
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