The American Historical Association on Friday published a sweeping revision of its statement on professional conduct. For the first time, the statement covers not only basic issues like the role of ...

In recent decades, however, most historians — and many Americans — have rejected this perspective. Dismantling cherished fables about the Old West and stripping the romance from the history of ...

Historical Interpretation of Buffalo Bill. 601 Views Program ID: 431895-2 Category: Public Affairs Event Format: Forum Location: Cody, Wyoming, United States First Aired: Aug 26, 2017 | 1:59pm EDT ...

Back in the 19th century, celebrations of territorial expansion were commonplace among American historians. In his multi-volume account of The Winning of the West and other historical writings ...

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 ...

Yale University historian Timothy Snyder speaks with RFE/RL about the interpretation and reinterpretation of the bloody 20th-century history of Eastern Europe, caught between Hitler's Germany and ...

I am the unnamed historian George F. Will disparaged in his April 10 op-ed, “A battle to save a battlefield.” Will was wrong about the Battle of Princeton, my report assessing the geographical ...

Shin Kawashima recalls his heart sinking with the election of Shinzo Abe as Japanese prime minister last December. A specialist in Asian diplomatic history at the University of Tokyo, Mr ...

Interpretations of Confederate history are misleading. The professor and students of Coe College’s History 317, guest columnists. Mar. 6, 2016 11:00 am.