New perspectives on how history is made
As this historian of the sport shows, it’s an old story.
40 years after the Bakke decision its endorsement of diversity may have been an ironic legacy of Jim Crow.
Most importantly, history shows that this kind of street action works.
One lesson is that the history of Gilded Ages is complicated and that should give us hope.
His erratic behavior is reminding some of Nixon at the end of his presidency.
Adams and Jefferson showed that even the harshest partisans can enjoy a warm friendship. (It helped that they had a common enemy.)
It’s what happened after several headline-making shootings captured public attention a century ago.
We have a gun culture not because of the sanctity of the 2nd Amendment, but because killing, looting, burning, raping, and terrorizing Indians were an American tradition and militias helped carry out these horrors.
They've led on public health before.
Military spending already consumes 54 percent of the federal discretionary budget.
We’ve rejected racism, but it remains deeply embedded in our culture.
We have it in our power to limit the use of both guns and bullets.
Was Graham responsible for the American evangelical alliance with the Republican Party or did he offer a different political model?
That’s the sad conclusion this presidents’ watcher has reached.
Historians' reactions to Mueller's public statement and findings.
It’s an old story in American history—and it’s getting worse.
Bobby. Martin. Guns took their lives and robbed us of figures of moral authority.
What historians are tweeting and retweeting.
The story begins way back in the 1930s (not the 1970s as is usually supposed).
History suggests our tolerance for incivility has costs.
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