New perspectives on how history is made
Depictions of Antietam couldn’t possible capture the magnitude of the battle’s horror.
When the British government opened its archives to historians — and started relying less on the past for its own business.
On the 1860 Republican National Convention in Chicago.
The life of John Andrew Jackson — and the vacillating richness and scarcity of the archive.
In the 1920s, many in the U.S. fought for a living Constitution. Plenty of others wanted it dead.
How a tragedy in New York City convinced Americans to learn how to swim.
Finding a story in the ways Robert Ray Hamilton, John Dudley Sargent, and Edith Sargent weren’t quite forgotten.
On Nathanael Greene’s inauspicious start.
Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland provide an outlet for antiwar soldiers.
On the early years of the real estate industry, and the racist effort to convince white Americans to buy single-family homes.
Following the careers of a family of especially corrupt border control officials.
Waiting for the start of the American Civil War in Canada and the Caribbean.
A story of math and political stasis.
When labor found a common cause — and enemy — with the abolition movement.
Researching the Sandinista Revolution from Nicaraguans’ perspective.
What happened in 1970 after Richard Nixon was told, “I doubt that there would be any problem of student demonstrations in Tennessee.”
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