In the interpretation of history the point of view from which sources are selected, presented, and evaluated is all-important. Writers of textbooks are as much conditioned by their own outlook as ...

After 1900, the writing of history shifted to professionals trained in recently established history Ph.D. programs. They replaced the one-sided, simplistic interpretation of the Revolution with ...

Is a more integrative, cross-disciplinary, theoretically informed understanding of change over time possible? Periodically, journalists, historians and political scientists are asked to rank ...

I am a history professor at one of the universities under attack by the Trump Administration. I am also a flag-waving patriot with an abiding love of the United States. Those two statements might ...

David Blight, a history and African American studies professor at Yale University, said he believes the 14th amendment was written in a way that leaves it open to different interpretations.

China and Taiwan have clashed over their competing interpretations of history in an escalating war of words over what Beijing ...

David Blight, a history and African American studies professor at Yale University, said he believes the 14th amendment was written in a way that leaves it open to different interpretations.