New perspectives on how history is made
Historians are rallying to memorialize the jail where slaves were auctioned off and driven in chains into the Deep South.
It’s a trend and it’s gotten worse in the last few decades.
A short history of paid speeches and the politicians who gave them.
The question is: Should it?
This neglect has worsened race relations.
What I learned is especially important to remember at a time of crisis in Russian-American relations.
That’s the mystery this writer wanted to understand.
The final installment in Sheldon Stern’s exciting series, “Capturing History as it Really Happened in October 1962
The fascinating story of a mammoth book about the Battle of Kursk.
An interview with expert David Commins.
It should serve as a reminder that Wheaton, for all its elite academic reputation, is still a different sort of school.
It’s the same thing MLK, Dorothy Day and Churchill possessed.
An unabashedly biased account of the presidents we should be proud of and the candidates we should worry about.
Reddit’s AskHistorians page brings questions to historians of all varieties, from the serious and dynamic to the curious and funny.
In her inspiring and illuminating new book "Headstrong: 52 Women Who Change Science—and the World" Rachel Swaby introduces some of the great and often underappreciated or forgotten minds of science.
It involves history, though few on the biker’s side seem to realize it.
My own feeling is that the US engagement with the Middle East is likely to remain so intense only for another two decades.
Employment in the nation’s nuclear weapons plants since 1945 has led to 107,394 American workers contracting cancer and other serious diseases.
It’s using a war tragedy as a means of selling new wars to the public.
There’s a lesson here if only we open our eyes and see it.
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