The terminology around violent ideological attacks has been weaponized widely by politicians, making the job of combating the underlying problems impossible.

Famous for his books about the founders, Gordon S. Wood’s true legacy may have been about showing how futile their efforts ...

A coin featuring the likeness of President Trump doesn’t have many precedents in American history. The ancient Roman ...

Anna Snyder is a public historian and student at Georgetown University Law Center. Stairwell looking down at U.S. Supreme Court, early 20th century. Photograph by Theodor Horydczak. [Library of ...

Hardly anyone uses the term genius to describe a historian. The traditional attributes of genius —­ usually considered to be some combination of raw talent, vast intelligence, or an innate gift — do ...

Jordan Sand is a professor of Japanese history at Georgetown University. He writes widely on topics in the social and cultural history of Japan and the Asia-Pacific. His most recent book is A History ...

Headstones of the 12 Unknown Continentals of the Camden Fourteen at the Old Presbyterian Cemetery in Camden, South Carolina. [FHD Forensics] For the ordinary soldier of the American Revolution, ...

Theodore Lothrop Stoddard was one of a generation of American thinkers who worried that the United States had gone too far in its egalitarian enthusiasms. His intellectual allies included writers such ...

Catherine Phipps is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol. She has a doctorate from the University of Oxford and has published a book on Histories of Sex Work Around the World.

Lauren Duval is assistant professor of history at the University of Oklahoma and author of The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence. Mount ...