New perspectives on how history is made
One of Edmund Morgan's last students accounts for his tremendous legacy.
A historian visits the new, and not quite complete, National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta.
What does Mad Men tell us about American life today?
What's happening in Chicano studies.
Fifteen years ago, when I set out to write a book about the Holocaust experiences of my father’s family, I knew I didn’t have forever.
Find out what American historians are thinking.
“Never was there a more treacherous murder!”
The chilling details of the U.S. military's plan to use the very scientists who had been essential to Hitler’s war effort.
James Schlesinger did not thwart possible presidential orders to use military troops or nuclear weapons in Nixon's final days as president.
"I am culpable of this rather imperious criticism."
Well, former House historian Ray Smock isn't thrilled by THIS Congress, but when examined critically, the institution has had a remarkably effective 225 years of operation.
Judge Andrew Napolitano's ugly views on Lincoln and the Civil War draw upon a long history of libertarian arguments.
At the tail end of Women's History Month, it's worth remembering Victoria Earle Matthews, who lived her life under one principle: history matters.
University of Washington historian Michael Honey on John Handcox, African American singer and labor activist in the Jim Crow South.
Andrew Napolitano was peddling snake oil on The Daily Show recently about Lincoln and slavery. Here are the facts.
The first ever unconference for independent historians proved to be a remarkable success.
You've come a long way, maybe.
Unfortunately, it is still necessary to have a token month every year devoted to women's lives.
In Concert celebrates its fiftieth anniversary this month. That'll learn ya.
And why not? The early modern world knew just how much was built on the backs of slave labor. Would that we were able to acknowledge that today.
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