Historians/History

The Weird Experiment by Colonial Powers to Read the Minds of the People They Ruled

by Erik Linstrum

When Freud went global.

“You Can Fool All the People”: Did Lincoln Say It?

by David B. Parker

The fascinating story that can now be told about the quip thanks to digitized data bases.

The Unexpected Legacy of George Washington

by Edward G. Lengel

He made it possible for entrepreneurs to thrive.

The Surprising Reaction I Got When I Assigned Barbara Tuchman’s Popular History of World War 1 to College Students

by B. C. Knowlton

They said that the book was too hard to read. This is a problem.

Why I Wrote a Book About TR’s Relationship with His Son Quentin

by Eric Burns

Admittedly, this is an unusually small topic for a book about Roosevelt, a man who looms large. But I have three reasons.

Channeling George: On Friendship with the Opposite Sex

by Thomas Fleming

Reflections on George Washington, Valentine’s Day and Presidents Day.

Is Lincoln’s the Next Statue to Go?

by Daniel W. Crofts

Lincoln’s career should remind us that moral complexity lies at the heart of the American experience.

Why Is Studying “Whiteness” Controversial?

by Eric Avila

A professor who teaches whiteness studies says it disrupts our way of thinking of white identity as normal.

Still Misleading America About Thomas Jefferson

by John Fea

Faux historian David Barton can keep saying Jefferson wanted a Christian America but it’s not true.

Think Bush v. Gore Was Contentious? There’s Another Election Where the Rival Candidate was Shot and Killed.

by Edward B. Foley

It happened in Kentucky in 1899 in a blatantly stolen election.

The Puzzling Apologies for Woodrow Wilson’s Racism in A. Scott Berg’s Recent Biography

by Sheldon M. Stern

And few noticed until now?

Now the British Are Debating What to Do About THEIR Embarrassing Old Statues

by Luke Reader

What they’re trying to sort out is how they should think about the British Empire.

Channeling George: Some Questions About Donald Trump

by Thomas Fleming

What George Washington would think of Mr. Trump.

What You Don’t Know About Presidential Libraries – And the Scandalous Way in Which They Are Operated

by Anthony Clark

New legislation would require disclosure of donations, but leave the rest of the broken system unregulated.

Why We Need an American Environmental History

by Dan Allosso

“I didn't think there's a really good general Environmental History textbook for undergrads, so I wrote one.”

Why Most Everyone Gets Munich Wrong

by John Kelly

Why it wasn’t relevant in Vietnam or Iraq, but might be if terrorists get a nuclear bomb.

Jeffersonians Claimed Washington Was Hamilton’s Dupe. They Were Wrong.

by Stephen F. Knott

Washington called the shots.

This Is What Max Hastings Did.  Is this Plagiarism?  You Decide.

by John R. Schindler

“Several months ago I made the unpleasant discovery that sections of the 2013 best-selling book Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War by Sir Max Hastings, the prolific British popular historian, looked an awful lot like one of my scholarly articles.”

How Does Today’s Middle East Threaten Obama’s Legacy?

by Deepak Tripathi

Two developments in particular have caused a sharp deterioration with threatening consequences in the coming year.

Yes, that Was George Washington Leading a Charge in Times Square

by Thomas Fleming

Historians are rallying to save his Princeton battlefield from bulldozers.