New perspectives on how history is made
Solomon Northup wasn't the only black man in New York to face abduction from slave catchers.
Like the Luddites, the Tea Party is raging against inevitable change.
Along with "Roots" and "Sankofa," the new Steve McQueen movie presents the most striking images of slave women put to celluloid.
The esteemed political commentator and popular historian talks about America's history of migration.
By the early '60s, Giap had already been supplanted by Le Duan and Le Duc Tho.
Why the Kennedy assassination continues to captivate America.
The Greatest Generation still has a great deal of symbolic political power.
Vietnam became an American killing field and a breeding ground for atrocity.
Columbus may have left a contentious legacy, but there's no denying his voyages expanded the boundaries of European knowledge.
Neither the United States nor the United Nations had clean hands in Somalia.
Economic historians explain why a debt ceiling default would be a very, very bad thing.
How the paranoid style in American politics has shut down the government.
Stone and Kuznick explain how telling the untold history can change the world for the better.
Aggressive U.S. moves against Cuba loomed large in Khrushchev’s decision to send in the missiles.
Or, how stupid decisions combined with general incompetence tends to lead to failure.
Most federal agencies -- including archives and parks -- are closed. It just got a LOT harder to do history in the United States.
The letter, found by researcher Anthony Clark, is the only documented expression of Truman's feelings on the matter.
Marylanders tried to kill Lincoln in 1861, Marylander John Wilkes Booth actually killed Lincoln in 1865, and Maryland's state song STILL condemns Lincoln as a tyrant.
Mahone and his Readjuster Party formed a biracial coalition that controlled Virginia for four years in the 1880s.
In the United States today few of us value wisdom. This was not always the case.
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