And yet there is one aspect of the historian’s craft that overlaps with the realm of genius: the art of writing. Given the centrality of writing to the way historians think and share their knowledge, ...

History is now firmly embedded at the center of the Court’s work. The interesting question is about how future historians ...

Real voices from the past are threatened by chatbots designed to amplify — and ultimately become — the loudest voices in the room.

Van Gosse is Professor of History Emeritus at Franklin & Marshall College, co-chair for Historians and Peace and Democracy, and author of The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America, From the ...

Catherine Phipps is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol. She has a doctorate from the University of Oxford and has published a book on Histories of Sex Work Around the World.

The women who founded the 1980s-era Parents Music Resource Center portrayed it as being beyond politics. Its actions, funding, and legacy suggest otherwise. The PMRC endured through the 1990s, ...

On a chilly night in the spring of 1934, a 27-year old lawyer and future member of Congress named Robert F. Jones took a ride out to Henry Tapscott’s farm a few miles east of Lima, Ohio. Surrounded by ...

Lauren Duval is assistant professor of history at the University of Oklahoma and author of The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence. Mount ...

Philip Kadish is a professor of American Studies at Pace University in New York City. The author of The Great White Hoax, he lives in New York City. James A. Garfield, c. 1880. Photograph by Napoleon ...

Robert A. Gross is James L. and Shirley A. Draper Professor of Early American History Emeritus at the University of Connecticut. His first book, The Minutemen and Their World received the Bancroft ...

No Place Like Home—Interview with Historian Susan J. Matt on Homesickness in American History ...

John Murphy, in the Balt Sun (June 30, 2004): GOREE ISLAND, Senegal - Standing in a narrow doorway opening onto the Atlantic Ocean, tour guide Aladji Ndiaye asked a visitor to this Senegalese island's ...