New perspectives on how history is made
History tells us why.
"I don’t have a pithy saying, but I do tell my students that I think the past should be both familiar and strange."
It’s a story from history that shows the danger of self-serving memos cut to fit the fashion of those in power.
That’s what Tucker Carlson claimed when defending Trump from charges he neglected the island because he’s racist. Here’s the backstory.
What historians are saying.
Instead, they should invest in education.
There are also place names that should be changed, like the one honoring Herald Square.
In Watergate the public got to hear directly from the key players.
A privilege of being white is that one's advantages are invisible to oneself, and experienced as having no victims.
He’s a prophet for our time.
Shouldn’t we stop singling out “the troops” for adulation and applaud heroism wherever it occurs?
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.
But there's something we can do about it.
His illness involves his deep-seated need for desecration.
The New York City Monuments Commission has some ideas.
Iran today looks strikingly like the US 40 years after its Revolution.
Why that’s good news for aging historians.
And what exactly should believers want from a president?
Her focus is on radical politics, intellectual history and women in the Black Power movement.
Sign up for HNN Newsletters
