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Renowned historian and broadcaster Dan Jones has become one of history's most recognisable faces. Having written and presented documentaries on a variety of topics from the Middle Ages, his newest [...]

Byline: Nick Manes The Frank Lloyd Wright Conservancy will bring its annual conference back to Detroit in late September to explore the work of the acclaimed architect who died nearly [...]

There's probably never been a more interesting time to interview political historian, filmmaker and novelist Tariq Ali. Now an octogenarian, Ali is still a physically and intellectually imposing man: tall [...]

PRESIDENTIAL RACES usually focus squarely on the future of the United States. But from furor over positive depictions of slavery to conflicts about reparations, heated arguments about Black history have [...]

What books are on your night stand? There are no books actually on the night stand -- just a clock, lamp and photo of my daughters. But beside it is [...]

In 1941, Erwin Rommel (who came to be known as the 'Desert Fox') had been given control of Germany's North Africa Korps. In a short period of time he had [...]

Anne Applebaum was born in 1964 in Washington DC. She is an author, journalist, historian and senior fellow at Johns Hopkins University. Her non-fiction book Gulag: A History won the [...]

WILLIAM T. SHERMAN'S LEGACY probably is linked more to 15th U.S. Army Corps than any other unit or army he would command during the Civil War. Still today, more than [...]

Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Bill T. Jones first met in 1994, when Gates, then early in his career as a professor at Harvard, was writing a profile on the [...]

Modern men, at least according to a recent TikTok meme, spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about the ancient Roman Empire. Far fewer, however, stop to consider the Holy [...]

STEVE COWIE SPENT 15 years researching how the Battle of Antietam and the following military occupations affected the prosperous small town of Sharpsburg, Md. Captivated by the Civil War since [...]

Most people, deep down, have an interest in or curiosity about history. Exploring the past can lead us to fascinating stories, inform our present and help us understand the constantly [...]

Peter Frankopan was born in London in 1971. He is the author of the 2015 bestselling non-fiction book The Silk Roads and a professor of global history at Oxford University. [...]

The Walls of Santiago: Social Revolution and Political Aesthetics in Contemporary Chile Terri Gordon-Zolov and Eric Zolov Berghahn Books, 2022 I met up with Eric in a quiet cafe in [...]

As far as Sara Sinclair and Stephanie Lozano are concerned, you don't have to know much about the history of the Indigenous people or the tribal nations of North America [...]

It could be an American fairy tale. Once upon a time, a young boy who loved horses gained a West Point appointment and became the North's most successful general, battered [...]

Jeanette Varberg Jeanette Varberg is one of Denmark's leading historians with expertise on Viking warfare and Bronze Age history. An archaeologist and scholar, she has written numerous books and articles [...]

What books are on your night stand? Two of Cesar Chavez's favorites: ''Loaves and Fishes,'' by Dorothy Day, and ''Faith and Violence,'' by Thomas Merton. Paul Chavez recently recommended them [...]

Byline: Scott Pitoniak Greg Tranter was seated in the opposite end zone at the cavernous Tampa stadium known as 'The Big Sombrero' that fateful January night in 1991 as Scott [...]

Diane Ravitch, founder and president of the Network for Public Education, is a research professor of education at NewYork University and a historian of education. From 1991 to 1993, she [...]

PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING WRITER ANNETTE GORDON-REED, 64, ON RESEARCHING--AND LIVING--AMERICA'S HISTORY You won a Pulitzer Prize for your book The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. How did you become interested [...]