New perspectives on how history is made
How Christopher Lasch speaks to the moment we’re in.
A conversation with historian Nell Painter on her life in history and her “encore career” in art.
He’s got the help of enablers.
These are the lessons we should have learned.
If Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed will Americans 50 years from now wonder how different our politics would have been if he had not been?
Is the story of the possible suicide of a president (in this case Teddy Roosevelt) off limits?
A story from Roman history helps illuminate the moment we are in now.
A veteran journalist recounts the times in modern history when journalists changed history.
History suggests there’s a very good chance they will – and that one of them will win.
It’s a sign that he lacks that most basic of virtues: good old-fashioned wisdom.
We might find them a cure for the moral illnesses of our day: inauthenticity, cravenness, unconcern, mendacity, injustice, and ignorance.
Her first history class in college revealed in shocking ways that she had essentially been lied to in school about nearly every aspect of the past.
Here's what we know.
A Wall Street Journal opinion piece by Lance Morrow is off-base.
On Thursday 23 immigrants became naturalized citizens, including a young sailor and four soldiers.
Americans—the president included—cannot help but love and hate the South at the same time; it is one of their favorite, most essential, pastimes.
In the 1950s, evangelicals defended the right of individuals to refuse to participate in an otherwise mandatory event on the grounds of their belief.
Donald Trump’s just the latest president to make us fearful.
As you tap out words on your phone, it’s worth remembering that you are participating in history.
No American of the early Republic so reflected the ambivalent view of slavery and injustice towards African-Americans as Jefferson.
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