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The writing of history is one of the great legacies of the ancient Greeks, and its earliest masters, Herodotus and Thucydides, are as central to the foundations of Western civilization as Homer, ...

Black history is everywhere. From oral traditions, written records, and acclaimed museums to weathered buildings, bronze statues or unrecognized placards, the markings of Black people, travel and ...

Why the work of historical stewardship isn’t just for historians. But this isn’t the story of C. S. Lewis. This is the tale of Sarah Irving-Stonebraker, an Australian historian who was appointed as a ...

In a well-attended — though not packed — Sever Hall 113, I settle into a seat a few rows from the front. On the chalkboard, “Please take a handout” is written in large letters. The sheet, “70 Years: ...

AT THE ANNUAL town meeting in Newport in the spring of 1870, a warrant was put forth “To see what action the town will take in regard to a History of the town …” The measure passed, and a committee ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. The historian Rob Boddice sat cross-legged on his couch in Montreal on a frigid day last winter and conjured ...