Rethinking the job of history — and the American Historical Association — after the veto of the Gaza “scholasticide” resolution.

Barbara Weinstein is professor of Latin American History at NYU. In 2007, she served as president of the American Historical Association. Her books include The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850-1920, and ...

Mr. Chapman is an instructor of history and social science at Lincoln Trail College in Robinson, Illinois. Ronald Wilson Reagan is no longer this side of eternity; his battles are over. Like the ...

Louis P. Masur, William R. Kenan Jr., Professor in American Institutions and Values at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, talks about the historical accuracy of Stephen Spielberg's "Lincoln ...

Mr. Marina is Professor Emeritus in History at Florida Atlantic University, and a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute in Oakland, CA. “God’s blessing is on him [George W. Bush].

Revisiting the Agrarian-Distributists and their fabrication of an American past.

An engraving attributing John Wilkes Booth’s assassination of Abraham Lincoln to the influence of Knights of the Golden Circle. [Library of Congress] In the summer of 1859, several stock actors ...

Two vice presidents resigned: John C. Calhoun (served under Andrew Jackson) and Spiro Agnew (served under Richard Nixon). The vice presidency has been vacant due to resignation or death a total of ...

Mr. Kessler is the author of a new book on the FBI, The Bureau: The Secret History of the FBI, available from Amazon.com. In 1993, Anthony Summers, in his book Official and Confidential: The ...

The U.S. was once the world’s most geographically mobile society. Now we’re stuck in place—and that’s a very big problem.