Free State of Jones Capsizes Lost Cause Myths
Reconstruction is perhaps the least understood period in American history, a distinction that has been…
Reconstruction is perhaps the least understood period in American history, a distinction that has been…
I recently completed a book on the history of the gun industry, culture, and the…
The tragic shooting at Pulse, a popular gay nightclub in Orlando, requires that we look…
On Friday, May 27, 2016, President Barack Obama visited Hiroshima, becoming the first sitting U.S.…
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On May 11, 2016, Florida man George Zimmerman put the handgun he used to kill…
Historians are so obsessed with discerning or making new “turns” these days that it may…
[From the May issue of The American Historian] Louis A. Pérez Jr. is the J. Carlyle…
[Crossposted from The American Historian Online] Samuel Walker is co-author, with Randy Roberts, of When…
In the last few weeks we’ve seen a rush of stories about the disastrous decision…