New perspectives on how history is made
And the lesson it holds for us today as we decide whether to admit Syrian refugees.
A professor who teaches whiteness studies says it disrupts our way of thinking of white identity as normal.
Faux historian David Barton can keep saying Jefferson wanted a Christian America but it’s not true.
It happened in Kentucky in 1899 in a blatantly stolen election.
And few noticed until now?
But what kind of ex-president is he going to be?
A surprising amount of business, both small and large, is done with unanimous consent, meaning without any dissent, says a former Senate historian.
It’s made our politics much more susceptible to irrationality.
A historian finds both can make a compelling argument.
The takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge triggered unpleasant memories of guerrilla warfare from our past.
In 2008 she used a made-up quote for Harriet Tubman.
What they’re trying to sort out is how they should think about the British Empire.
What George Washington would think of Mr. Trump.
At a time when some American politicians seek to tar whole religions in broad brushstrokes, Islam is not a monolith, it is a mosaic.
Why these authors reach a surprising conclusion.
With some cultural changes reducing the enormity of distractions, prevention can become a realistic part of the response to ADHD.
Dehumanizing the victims as disease carriers makes it easier to discriminate against them.
A striking lesson from the Seven Years’ War.
Historically, militias were a tool of the state, not a force formed in opposition to the state.
Change can happen just the way Sanders says.
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