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… figure prominently in what we call “Early” American history—a past often animated by the meeting between … Like so much of our popular conceptions of Early American history, however, this simple narrative obscures a great … ) brought those ideas to the public, and they appear in textbooks and journalism frequently. Today, we are living …

… force of personality, seemed to find himself vindicated by history. If only history repeated itself so easily.   Obama, on the other … He has Kennedy’s charisma and wry sense of his own place in history, not quite tragic (we pray) but with the manner of a … History News Service …

… inclined radicals, who acquired ordinary chemistry books from libraries, translated their complex instructions … No proof exists that the Internet is unique in the long history of the underground trade of information. And yet, on … studies at Michigan State University and a writer for the History News Service. …

… 1800 produced a constitutional crisis, the gravest in our history except for that of 1860. The crisis occurred because … above considerations of person or party — in American history. Bayard cleared the way for Chief Justice John … Jr. a historian in Washington, D.C., was co-founder of the History News Service. He is most recently the editor of A …

… longstanding conceptions of what constitutes human nature. History suggests that opponents of these changes will try to … to education and science. Neil Jumonville is professor of history at Florida State University and a writer for the History News Service. He is author, most recently, of "Henry …

… make Blood Sisters a pleasure to read, much like her other books Arbella: England’s Lost Queen (2005) and Elizabeth and … the Wars of the Roses , by Sarah Gristwood (New York: Basic Books, 2013) …

… of “religious pluralism.” In Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation , Peter Marshall retells … for stability during that tumultuous chapter of English history. Although Marshall’s monograph, at just shy of … and Believers is an important update to the general history of the Reformation for the 21st century. What makes …

… near Ukraine’s most fertile agricultural lands . Their history and identity were influenced by their geography, the … Cossack independence, but instead it initiated a long history of Russian domination in the region. Russia asserted … dominance over Ukraine. Mazepa remains reviled in Russian history, while Ukrainians have remembered him as a hero. A …

… next Tuesday will be one of the most important in American history. Such statements, however, are often little more … The most important elections are those in which political history changes course. There have been only three genuine … = 2008.   And we can take some comfort in the fact that history indicates that while realignments are caused by …

… Six years ago, I received a Ph.D. in American history. Today, I hold a full-time teaching job at an … and Zora Neale Hurston, 6,500 Americans wrote stories, guidebooks, and histories for the FWP. If the federal government … does not live by bread alone. It also needs the sense of history and humanity that academics — through many years of …

… look for the circle of buzzards. Actually, his reading of history, or his latter-day pantomiming of history, caused people to refocus on the annexation of … groups today, the Republic of Texas is simply taking real history and molding it selectively to justify present-minded …

… that between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, recipe books became a popular form of print which should not be … basic dishes for the table. Instead, published recipe books offered ways of creating pleasure, remembering … knowledge. As such,  Recipes for Thought  is not a history of food itself. If the reader seeks knowledge about …

… of the American Dream had already been showing up in recent history. Millennials have come of age hearing they are the first generation in American history who will not do as well as their parents. That … Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Cuba in front of children holding books labelled with various U.S. states. In the background …

… simplistic and shortsighted understanding of leadership and history. These observers argue that such a close election … predictions are not uncommon in American presidential history. Few contemporaries imagined that Truman, Kennedy, … lack an adequate appreciation of leadership and American history. Their forecasts, based on limited knowledge of …

… Its goal is to protect critical pieces of the country’s history. It is responsible for preserving national artifacts … It is the only way of ensuring these manmade icons to human history have real meaning and are worthy of a descendant’s … Base would be regarded as a monument in the annals of earth history was known from the moment they left the lunar …

… kinds of misleading analogies, at a crucial point in the history of China and of Sino-American relations, is a … but the temptation should be avoided. It makes for bad history. More than that, it makes it harder to understand … here and now. Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom is a professor of history at the University of California, Irvine, a writer …