New perspectives on how history is made
Usually it takes four or five years for the effects of flawed policy-making to become broadly evident.
At the least they’ll be powerful players in our future politics.
An imaginative account of the life 14 year old Emmett Till never got the chance to live.
A profile of Brian Glyn Williams, who today is back in the academy as a professor of history at UMass Dartmouth.
“A good historian must be very curious, sufficiently gracious, and honestly, a little nosey too.”
He didn’t believe you could reason your way to morality.
The brother who figured out how to fly was Wilbur.
The rightwing activist makes the bogus argument that the GOP is the party of racial justice. But facts won’t carry the day.
It’s possible and that’s saying something.
A Progressive unifier like FDR.
What’s needed today is a politics of meaning.
It’s an American tradition starting with Noah Webster’s.
"The discipline of history in Africa is facing a crisis in that it is attracting fewer and fewer students."
How he did it.
It was 155 years ago that Lincoln delivered his paean to democracy and liberty.
What we’ve lost by being mean.
So when exactly did presidents begin pardoning the Thanksgiving turkey?
It's the first time in history they've all gravitated to one party.
Here’s why that should concern Americans in the wake of the negotiations over the US, Mexico, Canada Trade Agreement.
The British Empire stood in the way. Not until the late 1950s did the US finally become a superpower.
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