A complex understanding of the past is vital to understanding what’s happening in the United States today. But many of us often don’t get the historical background we need in school. For example, to ...

Columnist, author, and linguist Richard Lederer spent about six months writing his latest book, “American History for Everyone.” That was a lot longer than it’s typically taken him to write his dozens ...

Retiring from the classroom after 50 years in academia, every journalist’s favorite Jewish historian is enjoying a victory lap. Journalists I know joke that the only Jewish historian they ever need to ...

Next year marks America’s 250th anniversary, or semiquincentennial. There will be celebrations and a lot of new books to mark the occasion. The essays in History Matters offer a simple message: Be ...

AIMMRC copy 39088013387667 is a gift from the Library of Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. "The European "discovery" and conquest of America was one of the most cataclysmic events in history, leading to the ...