New perspectives on how history is made
That’s a pertinent issue in the wake of the decision of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations to invite David Petraeus as a keynote speaker.
Her name was Vel Phillips. She was a path breaker in Wisconsin. She just died.
It happened 100 years ago this week.
It wasn’t Europe that gave us our idea of the Byzantines. They crafted their own Western European image.
It’s George Washington’s Rules of Civility.
Why Napoleon III deserves their gratitude.
The public widely gives Jefferson credit. Scholars, in dissent, have often said multiple hands were involved. Who’s right?
The Civil War lawyers in peace did what the Civil War lawyers in war had yearned to do— knit the nation together in obedience to law.
It started with a small dinner party in Paris.
The Confederates marched on Gettysburg on account of their need for … shoes.
He was accused of treason. Only the hunger for reconciliation saved him.
How the Great War spawned a tyrant.
It shows that slavery was not the only injustice affecting African Americans before the Civil War.
His name was Josiah Henson and he once was as famous as Frederick Douglass. So what happened?
But is the matter really settled?
An open letter to the Pulitzer Board about its indifference to Alex Haley’s "deliberate deception" in his prize-winning "Roots."
Even historians can’t agree.
His daily schedule? He gets up early, and starts working at 5:30-6:00 AM on his research papers.
Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine – And Monroe? Why this historian thinks they should be grouped together.
It’s U.S. Grant.
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