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

Barbara Weinstein is professor of Latin American History at NYU. In 2007, she served as president of the American Historical Association. Her books include The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850-1920, and ...

How a subgenre of murder mysteries plays with the way real history is written.

One of the most intriguing stories about racism in America was that of the successful drive to get Hattie McDaniel the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance as Scarlett’s Mammy in ...

Mr. Chapman is an instructor of history and social science at Lincoln Trail College in Robinson, Illinois. Ronald Wilson Reagan is no longer this side of eternity; his battles are over. Like the ...

Mr. Marina is Professor Emeritus in History at Florida Atlantic University, and a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute in Oakland, CA. “God’s blessing is on him [George W. Bush].

James A.S. Sunderland is a Research Fellow at the Woolf Institute in Cambridge and a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge. His DPhil, from Merton College, Oxford ...

An engraving attributing John Wilkes Booth’s assassination of Abraham Lincoln to the influence of Knights of the Golden Circle. [Library of Congress] In the summer of 1859, several stock actors ...

The U.S. was once the world’s most geographically mobile society. Now we’re stuck in place—and that’s a very big problem.

Mr. Cox, Ph.D., is Associate Director of the Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin. When it comes to commentary about the office of vice president of the United States ...

Mr. Spivak is an attorney in New York, and received a Master's in History from Brooklyn College. His Master's thesis explored the history of the recall. Even though 26 states authorize the recall ...