New perspectives on how history is made
A top 10 list that’s highly possible given what we’ve seen – and perfectly horrifying.
Trump’s glorification of consumption would spell environmental doom, as E. F. Schumacher warned decades ago.
Like Trump, Burr was despised by his peers.
Differential weathering of carbonate rocks creates sharp-sloping ridges that are ideal for defensive tactics, it turns out.
In this interview author Scott Martelle explains what happened and why he decided to write about the case.
Lansky’s hotel empire in Cuba was built with the support of the corrupt dictator Batista.
It happened in 1864 in Virginia and now it’s the subject of a novel, as the novel’s author explains.
This was the day – June 19, 1865 – in 1865 when slaves in Texas finally were freed.
He's the latest in a long line of American demagogues but has come closest to the White House. That makes him the most dangerous of them all.
How 3 educators tried to put the Charleston massacre into historical perspective online.
It’s also an especially grievous insult in view of the role that gay bars have played in LGBTQ history.
The crisis of our national politics right now is not the failure of both parties as much as it is the failure of the Republican Party.
Sadly, it appears that he did. But it wasn’t for the reason he later copped to.
“Woodward's lack of disclosure calls into question every story he has ever pitched, edited or written.”
He is telling us in public what Nixon hid in secret, but the results will be the same, if not worse.
He’d be the worst.
The series is based on the sci fi dystopia, The Handmaid’s Tale. The historian? Harvard’s Perry Miller.
Historian Hal Elliott Wert on the poster art of George McGovern and the Democratic insurgents.
This? Romance novels. The academy should pay attention.
This medieval historian says it has.
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