In a recent essay in the NYT Book Review of John F. Harris's The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House, Alan Ehrenhalt speculated about the reasons Clinton was so disliked.This sparked a ...

This is the second installment in Emma Garman's series about found documents, fiction, and history. Read the first installment here. The Name of the Rose has a straightforward enough premise.

Olivia Paschal is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Virginia, and a journalist and writer. Resources of the Soil (Mural Study, Ukiah, California Post Office), by Ben Cunningham, c.

Translating the first book printed in English was quite stressful, as William Caxton made clear in his profoundly neurotic introduction to the 1473 edition of The Recuyell of the Historyes of ...

Newly-released FBI files show a lot of strange threats against the former secretary of state’s safety—and say a lot about 1970s America. Historians may never speak of an “Age of Adams” to ...

Nicholas Turse, writing in www.tomdispatch.com, a weblog of the Nation Institute (April 2004): Since 1961, thanks to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, we've all been cognizant of the"unwarranted ...

Mr. Halpern, professor of history at Henderson State University (Arkansas), is the author of UNIONS, RADICALS AND DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTS: SEEKING CHANGE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (Greenwood Press ...

As the Bush administration launches a worldwide war against terrorists, it also is setting up an Office of Homeland Security. Questions are being raised about how that office will protect the nation.

Almost one hundred years ago exactly, on September 6, 1901, Leon Czolgosz, a self-professed anarchist, shot President William B. McKinley, mortally wounding him. Theodore Roosevelt, in his first ...

For a while the televised sounds and sights of Friday’s service of remembrance at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London were cheering in a time of sorrow: Britain, while mourning for its many ...

view of the gun is as deep a superstition as any that affected Native Americans in the 17th century.