Eric Foner’s essay collection “Our Fragile Freedoms” demonstrates how our understanding of the past can deepen and grow more ...

Antelope became an incorporated city in 1901, and at its height in 1910, had a population of about 300. The town’s most ...

When Prof. John W. Boyer published his landmark book on the history of the University of Chicago in 2015, his work gave a valuable new window into UChicago’s past. But for Boyer, a renowned historian ...

Former teacher Larry Coffin, age 82, writes about the past and serves as a kind of caretaker for Bradford’s history.

Was the Franco dictatorship a cause or consequence of the Spanish Civil War? Was Einstein a medieval scientist? Confusions like these are quite common among secondary school students, who tend to ...

Commentary from the heads of two prominent historical associations on Trump’s recent executive order on “radical indoctrination” in schools. Under the grossly misleading title “Ending Radical ...

During the curtain call, we finally get to see and hear the real Doris Hines in vintage video projected behind the bowing ...

This rewrite of romantic history is a political failure. Hermanus and Shattuck forget that the word “history” derives from the Greek term that means “learning or knowing by inquiry.” The History of ...