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What makes a book a history? In the eighteenth century, novelists called their books 'histories,' smack on the title page. No one was more brash about this than Henry Fielding, [...]

Byline: Malcolm Jones Sean Wilentz ends his massive history, 'The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln,' with a description of a photograph taken in 1865: 13 men, six white, [...]

At meetings across the country on Holocaust Memorial Day, worthies intoned the 'lessons of the Holocaust' and warned that we must 'learn from the past'. But ask most historians and [...]

TONY JUDT DIED on Aug. 6. He had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Lou Gehrig's disease. It settled into his body late in 2008 and, remorselessly over two years, shut it down. [...]

It's not every day that you get to see the lighter side of thousand-year-old scribes, unless you're Erik Kwakkel. The medieval book historian at Leiden University in the Netherlands pores [...]

Next April is the 500th anniversary of the accession of the most colourful, contentious of English monarchs: Henry VIII. So divisive, absolutist and extraordinary was he that it is unlikely [...]

Rockford, Illinois President Bush's remark the other day that the theory of 'intelligent design' should be taught alongside the theory of evolution brought howls of derision from his detractors in [...]

The new Archbishop of Canterbury has argued against 'pinning hopes on individuals'. The Roman historian Livy (59 BC-AD 17) would have found that most bizarre. Livy's 142-book Ab Urbe Condita [...]

VATICAN CITY * Faced with recent setbacks in the United States and in Europe, the Catholic church has intensified its increasingly uphill battle against gay marriage. The latest salvos came [...]

DEEP THOUGHT: Writer-historian David McCullough is often asked how much time he spends researching his books and how much time writing them. People don't ask him how much time he [...]

In August, Knopf will publish The Twilight of the Bombs, the fourth and final volume of Richard Rhodes's seminal work chronicling the world's nuclear history, a three-decade journey that began [...]

The History and Policy Network, a group of distinguished historians eager to demonstrate the relevance of their subject to contemporary policy making, has launched a project called Bad History. It [...]

You might say Paula Fredriksen and Augustine are old friends. The Aurelio Professor of Scripture at Boston University has worked on a variety of Augustine projects for the past 20 [...]