Remember how a few months ago it seemed like everyone was talking about the Roman Empire after a TikTok meme? It might be a sign of a broader interest in history at this time. As Will Dunn wrote in ...

NMAH copy purchased with funds from the NMAH Endowment. What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza's Thinking About History, a ...

However, I’ve observed that we don’t always learn from historical events, be they in geopolitics, our personal lives or our professional experiences. In my view, that’s to our detriment because, as ...

Students in Pomona High School social studies teacher Dale Munholland's American history class on Feb. 23, 2018, in Arvada, Colo. For the past half-decade, amid overheated rhetoric contesting the very ...

Americans are fighting about history. This past week, thousands of students from across the country came together to celebrate it. Kaleb Ice playing Elton John in a National History Day performance ...

“Raise your hand if you’ve heard of Thomas Jefferson,” I said to a group of about 70 middle schoolers in Memphis. Hands shot up across the auditorium. “What do we know about him?” I asked. “He was the ...