I’m on a text chain with my 3 brothers and all our sons. All of us are liberal arts majors, mostly history. I dare say we Smiths are a bit contrarian. It’s our knowledge of history and learning the ...

The John Portman-designed Renaissance Center was built two generations after Detroit’s architectural heyday and a generation ...

The Scottish poet, novelist, and historian Andrew Lang once quipped that politicians use statistics the way a drunkard uses a lamppost: “for support rather than illumination.” Indeed, the same line ...

In our modern age, we have convinced ourselves that we are so advanced, so enlightened, that the lessons of the past no longer apply to us. We act as though history is an outdated relic—something for ...

History, the study of documented events and change over time, is at its foundation the study of people—singularly and collectively, with their shared and conflicting natures, choices, attitudes and ...

I once heard an historical reenactor in Colonial Williamsburg say this: We should study history because we are imperfect, and because we are imperfect, we will make mistakes. By studying history, we ...

Since long before Isaiah prophesied that nations would beat their swords into plowshares, men of good will have dreamed the noble dream of disarmament and everlasting peace. Great thinkers and artists ...

I had seen their propaganda videos on Twitter for years, but I never bothered to look up what it was before. It was just one of many radical left-wing outlets pumping out videos of half-truths and ...

Facing History & Ourselves uses lessons of history to challenge teachers and their students to stand up to racism, antisemitism and other forms of bigotry and hate. Facing History & Ourselves is an ...

How long does it take for a great power to develop military amnesia? Russia and America, the two former Cold War superpowers, should be better positioned than any other nation to understand the high ...

During my college years, I studied, worked and traveled in what was then the last days of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Personal lessons and observations from those two years abound. Among ...