Reading the important introduction to Hayden White's Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europ e (1973), I am ...

Essential Bibliography What books and articles belong on a short list of essential readings defining history? Marc Bloch, The Historian...

Max Euwe (1901-1981) was a mathematician and the fifth official World Chess Champion. The beginning of his now classic text, The Development...

 Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, they spent several weeks exploring Cape Cod. On this day in 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt visi...

The prescriptions for how to create a more effective high school history course that I discussed this morning in " The American Story...

George Chalich was a high school teacher who inundated the junior class with factoids. I loved the factoids he gave us, but hated the slow p...

In his History of the United States (1875), George Bancroft highlights the authority of the Second Continental Congress that began meeting ...

Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Non-Fictions (1999) sits in a certain room of my house where I spend a lot of time waiting. By the end of 2010 ...

Notes from reading the first chapter of Marc Bloch, The Historian's Craft (1953) "How ... can one make of phenomena, having no ot...

"Am I a professor? Then what will I say today? But if I am a teacher, what will they do today?" Lendol Calder, 1370 The New So...

Historians know more about the events of the past than the people who lived through them. Naturally, we can see events in proper perspecti...

History is eloquent in declaring that American democracy was born of Christianity and that Christianity was Calvinism. Loraine Boettner, Th...

It is with a sense of triumph that I look back on my first year of graduate school and a declaration I made then. I resolved to war against ...

In the spring I will be offering a new class for the students at Deer Park Home Link. This post augments information in the course descripti...

Historians are dull people; they can kill a conversation with a fact. Robert Littlewood It is impossible to verify the quotation above. Bob ...

Some notes from part of a history lecture: What is history? Why study it? The past helps us understand how we came to be the way we are. The...

At History is a Weapon a brief audit of the role of bias in history begins, "History isn't what happened, but a story of what happ...

Written in a spiral notebook 28 June 1995, Fort Loudon Lake, Tennessee. What we call history and what we call the novel are more recent than...

Like the ancient Greeks and Romans, Cortés’s Castilians fought from a long tradition of tactical adaptation based on individual freedom, civ...