The historians who want to know how our ancestors experienced love, anger, fear, and sorrow ...

A new book argues that civilizations built on centralized wealth and power contain the seeds of their own destruction.

My father is a professional historian who specializes in the Founding Fathers, especially George Washington. I recall a conversation I had with him, perhaps when I was an undergraduate, when I asked ...

This year’s Weisman Art Museum (WAM) fall exhibition peers into the shadows of America’s glorified history and beckons forth what has been disremembered. WAM opened “Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial ...

Beginning Feb. 1, schools, museums and communities across the nation mark the start of Black History Month — a celebration of Black history, culture and education. The history of the observance dates ...