New perspectives on how history is made
Lee’s sorry record as a slave owner, whether he was guilty of the charge of “woman whipper” or not.
It’s long past time we did so.
The terrible question that remains today amid widespread ethnic cleansing and genocide is why nothing was done.
His favorite saying about history? Historians have the last word.
It failed miserably.
Why did you choose history as your career? I took my first ancient history course because it fit my schedule and was immediately hooked.
Speech delivered at the Rotary Club of Ashland, Oregon. This week he turns 100.
Ken Burns’s and Lynn Novick’s implicit “honor the troops” undertone makes this documentary a platform for the neo-orthodox culture war players.
In October they’re holding a conference in DC.
A lesson from the campaign against censorship in the 19th century shows why.
We weren’t and our history of imperialism proves it.
It’s because if you want to understand Charlottesville, it helps to understand our history of hatred.
“Tyldesley’s Law”: “Any theory about the behavior, beliefs and abilities of the ancient Egyptians, no matter how unlikely, will be accepted as truth by someone.”
Why did they arrive at different conclusions?
A new collection of her writings shows she’s still relevant.
50 years later, we know.
Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and U.S. expansionism at the end of the 19th century.
Why the US waged war in Vietnam.
It might. History shows why history and politics don’t mix well.
How a kid who grew-up in Florida decided to become a historian of 17th century Stuart England.
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