New perspectives on how history is made
No one knows. But because sex fascinates and it sells, Monticello is ripping up floors and preparing to establish a new tourist attraction.
They call it world history, but it’s really just Western Civ. Case study: Massachusetts.
A centarian looks back.
Once again a president has been caught misleading the public about their health. In this Donald Trump is not unique.
A survey indicates the answer is yes.
It was that Oregon in the 20th century was still the Wild Wild West where anything goes.
“To study history is dangerous in a place like China, past and present.”
The weeping time does not end with weeping; it ends with triumph.
50 years later no one knows for sure, but these are some self-evident factors.
"I had the chance to stand in front of Rembrandt’s Man with a Golden Helmet."
What this historian learned by reexamining Ruth’s life from a racial and gender perspective.
It was at the turn of the last century when two famous explorers both claimed to have been the first to step foot on the North Pole.
The fact is historians are still fighting over it.
It's the Pulitzer that went to Alex Haley’s tarnished blockbuster, “Roots.”
A half-century boom in the fur trade that decimated California otters.
It happened twenty years ago when Bill Clinton launched missiles in the midst of his sex scandal.
The new battleground is not in some basement or backyard where hate is brewing. It’s not on the street. It’s in your phone and on your screen.
But that didn’t stop this courageous historian from trying to quantify Alexander’s wealth.
Here's why they aren't celebrating this attempt at a usable past.
First and foremost there’s his mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine.
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