Elizabeth Lewis Pardoe British North America developed from a landscape of religions into a nation of races over the course of the eight...

Elizabeth Lewis Pardoe I found my way to this topic via a peculiar trajectory that began along the Cam under the tutelage of Quentin Skinn...

Randall Stephens I've only been in the UK once during Guy Fawkes Day, or Bonfire Night .  I saw plenty of fireworks and bonfires light...

NPR Staff, "The Voting Rights Act: Hard-Won Gains, An Uncertain Future," NPR, July 21, 2013 . . . . Congress also noted, howev...

Gabriel Loiacono    One evening, chatting with friends from church, one asked me what kind of history I focused on. I told him: the histo...

Elizabeth Lewis Pardoe As I struggle to find the energy, focus, and drive to complete my summer writing deadlines, the opening lines of Th...

Randall Stephens Readers might find interesting this recent article in the Guardian about history battles.   On the heels of the Niall Fe...

Heather Cox Richardson Message boards and blogs are full of angry people calling for Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to...

Heather Cox Richardson I have been pretty vocal about my inability to understand why people are so gripped by the Titanic disaster....

Joseph Yannielli* One of the advantages of digital history is that it allows its practitioners to comment on public events in real time ...

Chris Beneke   With the present birthrate, the Nordic stock will have become a hopeless minority within fifty years, and will within...

Steven Cromack April 15, 2012 marks the one-hundredth anniversary of the sinking of the R.M.S. Titanic. In honor of the centennial, events ...

Heather Cox Richardson It’s fairly widely known that the game Monopoly was developed in America in the late nineteenth century to illustrat...

Dana Goblaskas When I first heard about the riots that broke out in London’s Tottenham neighborhood on Saturday, I couldn’t help thinkin...

Dan Allosso I was driving home from work the other day, listening to music instead of audiobooks for a change; randomly playing the “top-r...

Heather Cox Richardson A year or so ago, a graduate student studying for her comprehensive exams asked me if I could explain the differenc...