Reading the Landscape
For the past two months, I have been on a researching road trip through the West and Southwest—Colorado, ...
What If the World Were Flat and Columbus Had Fallen Off the Edge of the Earth?
What if Columbus had never made it to America?
Visualizing History
Nineteenth-century visual images, then, had power to move people to action, to convert ideas into policy.
Finding Your Place in Letters
For scholars of American history, letter-writing makes historical research possible.
Lost Franklin Expedition Ship Found by Canadian Scientists
In 2014, a Canadian team announced they had found the shipwrecks of John Franklin's lost 1845 expedition.
The Public Wife: Is Maureen McDonnell to Blame for Her Husband’s Downfall?
Maureen McDonnell was found guilty, along with her husband, Gov. Bob McDonnell. What role do spouses have in political scandals?
Space Is The Place: The US, USSR, and Space Exploration
Even during the Cold War, US and Russian cooperation succeeded in space exploration.
A Brief History of the Yazidis of Iraq
From the Christian mob’s destruction of Sarapeum in Alexandria in 391 CE to the Taliban’s 2001 dynamiting of ...