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To judge from current events in the Middle East, the god of Israel appears to be battling the god of the Palestinians, even though they both seem to be the [...]

When Norman Leach arrived for a meeting in Calgary one morning last September, he had a checklist of items to be verified and lessons to deliver. An expert on Canada's [...]

Here is a picture of Gorbachev with Steve. Here is another picture of Gorbachev with Steve, this one with some Russian dissidents. And look, there is one of Gorbachev and [...]

You can take Paul Johnson's word for it. In one persona, the 81-year-old Englishman is a right-wing journalistic gadfly with an acid tongue and the inclination to use it, once [...]

TRUE COLOR The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett's 'prodigious follow-up,' our starred review said, to The Mothers, debuts at #6 in hardcover fiction, selling four times as many copies in its [...]

VINCENT VAN GOGH, who sold but a single painting in his time, died penniless in 1890, by his own hand or--in a theory proposed by his latest biographers--by a combination [...]

Hugh Thomas first came to public prominence in 1961 with his acclaimed study, The Spanish Civil War. Thirty years later the former Professor of History at the University of Reading [...]

In 2007, environmental historian and university professor David Biggs traveled to Hue for the Fourth of July holiday. During the trip, Vietnamese officials told him that harmful chemicals abandoned during [...]

Byline: Marc Parry In The History Manifesto, Jo Guldi and David Armitage challenged their fellow historians with a 'call to arms.' For years, the book argued, historians had narrowed their [...]

Byline: Abigail Jones In the fall of 1809, a young man with dark skin and tattered clothes stood at the gates of Yale College, weeping. Crowds of students passed by [...]

Byline: Marc Parry Books are the gold standard of historical scholarship. Claudio Saunt, a specialist in early American history, has published three of them. As a sort of epilogue to [...]

Memoirs about cats and dogs are nearly as common as cats and dogs. Rarer animal companions have to wait longer for their literary turn, like Margaret Stanger's ''That Quail, Robert'' [...]

THE MANUSCRIPT was almost published a couple of times. One editor expressed enthusiasm, then abruptly passed. Oxford University Press offered the author--Julius S. Scott, a young historian who had just [...]

Amanda Foreman is a historian who understands the power -- and the appeal -- of a well-turned phrase, an approach she often describes as ''history in the round,'' which she [...]

Byline: Evan R. Goldstein Bernard Lewis left Princeton University in 1986, forced out at the then-mandatory retirement age of 70. At his farewell party, Charles Issawi, who was also retiring [...]

Byline: Carlin Romano 'Us against them' seems a staple of human psychology as unsinkable as 'That's mine!' for a 3-year-old or 'I wish they'd quiet down' for a senior citizen [...]

Byline: Christopher Shea New York City -- In Greenwich Village, not far from where Bob Dylan got his startÇöbut in a chic Italian bistro, not a smoky dive like the [...]

Byline: Tom Bartlett Let's say you spend a dozen years researching a book. It's the first in a planned trilogy, the historical opus you consider your life's work. The book [...]

Who better than David M. Kennedy to write about what Margaret MacMillan, in the subtitle of her new book, calls ''the uses and abuses of history''? Kennedy, the emeritus Donald [...]

For the Columbia University historian Alan Brinkley, the first surprise in Jane Mayer's book ''The Dark Side'' came before the text begins. ''It is a curious coincidence that Mayer is [...]