New perspectives on how history is made
It’s a sign that he lacks that most basic of virtues: good old-fashioned wisdom.
We might find them a cure for the moral illnesses of our day: inauthenticity, cravenness, unconcern, mendacity, injustice, and ignorance.
Her first history class in college revealed in shocking ways that she had essentially been lied to in school about nearly every aspect of the past.
Here's what we know.
A Wall Street Journal opinion piece by Lance Morrow is off-base.
On Thursday 23 immigrants became naturalized citizens, including a young sailor and four soldiers.
Americans—the president included—cannot help but love and hate the South at the same time; it is one of their favorite, most essential, pastimes.
In the 1950s, evangelicals defended the right of individuals to refuse to participate in an otherwise mandatory event on the grounds of their belief.
Donald Trump’s just the latest president to make us fearful.
As you tap out words on your phone, it’s worth remembering that you are participating in history.
No American of the early Republic so reflected the ambivalent view of slavery and injustice towards African-Americans as Jefferson.
One day, Lincoln said, a man may arise among us whose ambition threatens the Republic.
And that would be a first in our history.
When problems seem out of control, William James suggests turning to what you can control.
It can’t possibly work.
An historian’s assessment of the 44th president’s understanding of American history.
In this day and age that’s news.
The outcome of his in 1862 determined the fate of the Union in the Civil War.
Unfortunately, we can’t just ignore him.
Lessons from World War II.
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