Rethinking the job of history — and the American Historical Association — after the veto of the Gaza “scholasticide” resolution.

Pence and Sessions are but two prominent Americans in and out of politics today who continue refueling a centuries-old controversy over the role of religion in American life.

Marjorie N. Feld is Professor of History at Babson College, where she teaches courses on U.S. social, labor, and gender history, food justice, and sustainability. She is the author of Lillian Wald ...

“There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish … it was so fragile.” So says the dying Emperor Marcus Aurelius at the ...

Mr. Stern taught African American history at the college level for a decade before becoming historian at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum (1977–1999)—where he designed the museum’s ...

Comparing Kennedy's death to Lincoln's gives you a host of weird coincidences. Some examples are: Both Presidents were shot in the back of the head, on the Friday before a major holiday, while ...

Two and a half million people visit the Alamo each year where, according to its website, “men made the ultimate sacrifice for freedom,” making it “hallowed ground and the Shrine of Texas ...

Olivia Paschal is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Virginia, and a journalist and writer. Resources of the Soil (Mural Study, Ukiah, California Post Office), by Ben Cunningham, c ...

Reagan rode the white backlash—along with other major issues, to be sure—farther than anyone else ever did in American history, before or since.

Is it Muslim or Moslem?When Baby Boomers were children it was Moslem. The American Heritage Dictionary (1992) noted,"Moslem is the form predominantly preferred in journalism and popular usage ...

W. J. Rorabaugh, professor of History at the University of Washington in Seattle, is the author of American Hippies (Cambridge University Press), which offers a brief overview of the Sixties ...

In 1993, Anthony Summers, in his book Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover, claimed that Hoover did not pursue organized crime because the Mafia had blackmail material on ...