“Master of the Mountain”: The real truth about Thomas Jefferson
Forget Sally Hemings -- a historian discovers the ugliest side of a founding father in his ledgers
Sunday, Oct 14, 2012 10:00 PM UTC 60Entertainment Founding Fathers, slavery
Forget Sally Hemings -- a historian discovers the ugliest side of a founding father in his ledgers
Sunday, Oct 14, 2012 10:00 PM UTC 60A history of Memphis's yellow fever epidemic shows that heroes (and cowards) are where we least expect them
Sunday, Oct 7, 2012 11:00 AM UTCA string of historical studies shames current U.S. income distribution
Wednesday, Sep 19, 2012 8:18 PM UTCFareed Zakaria's plagiarism scandal shows the danger of journalists trying to write history
Sunday, Aug 19, 2012 4:00 PM UTC 42Not the comedian, but his uncle Nick, who took on North Carolina's infamous, racist senator Jesse Helms in 1972
Friday, Aug 10, 2012 4:45 PM UTC 11Despite being known as a man of the left, Vidal represented a populist backlash against mid-century liberalism
Thursday, Aug 2, 2012 4:30 PM UTC 16A Wall Street Journal writer claims the government doesn't deserve credit for building the Internet
Tuesday, Jul 24, 2012 8:46 PM UTC 91It's been done before -- including by the Founding Fathers and Lincoln
Tuesday, Jul 24, 2012 6:33 PM UTC 29We're always told we need a "national service." But feel-good class-mixing gimmicks are no cure for inequality
Tuesday, Jul 10, 2012 6:40 PM UTC 58Unlike today's leaders, the authors of the Declaration understood that "American exceptionalism" had to be earned
Wednesday, Jul 4, 2012 5:30 PM UTC 61Land of the free? Remembering when the man who penned "The Star-Spangled Banner" defended slavery
Wednesday, Jul 4, 2012 11:30 AM UTC 46On the 75th anniversary of Amelia Earhart's final flight, an expedition team says it can find her missing plane
Monday, Jul 2, 2012 1:28 PM UTC 13Debates about the rich's influence in government are as old as the country
Saturday, Jun 30, 2012 3:00 PM UTC 12A new study ranks Bush near the very bottom in history, due to delusional wars, reckless spending and inflexibility
Friday, Jun 29, 2012 11:30 AM UTC 145What board games, "Stuart Little," cryogenics and death panels reveal about Americans
Sunday, Jun 24, 2012 9:00 PM UTCPresidential candidates have used religion to attack each other for centuries. An expert explains why -- and how
Thursday, Jun 21, 2012 2:00 PM UTCThe War of 1812 gave us the first "hawks" in U.S. history
Tuesday, Jun 19, 2012 11:45 AM UTCPresident after president has fallen into similar traps when it comes to conflict. An expert explains why
Saturday, Jun 16, 2012 8:00 PM UTC 36JFK assassination documents offer surprising lessons about government secrecy -- and Obama's presidency
Thursday, May 31, 2012 9:09 PM UTC 47The National Review's lame attempt at revisionist political history
Monday, May 28, 2012 11:45 AM UTC 101Page 2 of 7 in American History