History

“Mr. Arquilla adds to his academic muscle with an enjoyable work that reads less like history and more like an adventure story.”

In his study, The Whites of Their Eyes, Paul Lockhart reminds the reader that aside from being the first “honest-to-goodness battle” of The Revolutionary War, the battle of Bunker Hill had

It’s okay to giggle like a schoolboy at the title—even the author acknowledges so in his introduction to The Secret History of Balls: The Stories Behind the Things We Love to Catch, Whack, Thro

Fernando Tejerina edits this first single-volume survey of the evolution and current state of institutions of higher learning.

Grace Balogh is almost 30 years old before she found out her birthday was April 6th and not the 16th.

Here, at the beginning of the 21st century, Noah Webster is an often overlooked fixture of American culture to a modern audience.

Freelance writer Katharine Greider works hard at doing right by her subject, a one hundred and 50-year-old tenement building in New York’s Lower East Side where she and her husband, David Andrews,

To those used to the utter lack of respect given to artists in contemporary times, especially in America, the topic of Mr. Volkov’s book may seem puzzling.

Millions of words of have been dedicated to the discussion of World War II, its causes, its horrors and its aftermath.

Mortified. Dismayed.

The more I read and learn about early American history, the more resonant these two words become in relation to my own deficient education.

Jim al-Khalili holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Surrey and is the chair of the Public Engagement in Science at the University of Surrey.

A century of endeavor by Irish missionary priests, brothers, and sisters ebbs away.