New perspectives on how history is made
Why it’s not rash to place him at the bottom this early in his presidency.
What historians are saying.
Why a publisher decided to bring out a new edition of the book that told this story.
And it’s we love him still.
Her new book, "The Slave's Cause," rewrites the history of abolitionism.
At least we’re no longer hiding her statue in the Capitol basement.
But why did we go to war with Nazi Germany? Few recall FDR’s explanation. We should.
It’s this giant monument to Stephen A. Douglas.
Back then black and white reading tastes were very similar and very middlebrow.
How this newspaperman became a historian.
The wise man was Llewellyn Thompson. This is what he thought would help us prevail.
It’s now being seen as a bourgeois revolution.
It’s time for a methodological revolution.
How a biographer used digital archives to uncover the secret past of Lucy Parsons.
The media lumps Emory’s Patrick Allitt in with climate change deniers, but his position is more nuanced.
"I don’t have a pithy saying, but I do tell my students that I think the past should be both familiar and strange."
There are also place names that should be changed, like the one honoring Herald Square.
A secret FBI plan to divide the Communist Party of the United States by starting a Maoist faction is finally coming to light.
His name was Ferdinand Münz. His misfortune was to excel as a scientist when the Nazis came to power.
The New York City Monuments Commission has some ideas.
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