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, ...

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

A push to try more kids accused of crimes as adults reflects a backlash to decades of successful advocacy. The Vietnam War became a testing ground for private contractors and military systems that ...

Theodore Lothrop Stoddard was one of a generation of American thinkers who worried that the United States had gone too far in its egalitarian enthusiasms. His intellectual allies included writers such ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Two women shopping in a grocery store under a banner reading: “Happy birthday America, there's no place else we'd rather be!” commemorating the United States Bicentennial. Photograph by Marion S.

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 ...