history

David Livingstone explores the dubious history of overclaiming or distorting the role of climate.

When the Antonine Plague hit in 165, says historian Colin Elliott, the Roman Empire was already well on its way to failure.

When I am troubled by the times in which we live, I turn to Óscar Romero.

The version of Christian history I grew up with hit fast-forward after John’s Revelation and held it until the late 20th century.

Like so many books today, it seems aimed at convincing an audience that will never read it.

Like Drunk History and History of the World Part II, Cunk on Earth is very funny. But the larger joke is that fake news is winning.

I approached the project’s new anthology with some skepticism. Its contents quickly dispelled my doubts.

Josephus was tight with the emperor. Guy MacLean Rogers trusts his account anyway.

When seismic shifts unseat us, it’s the ordinary that puts us back together again.

School districts and legislatures aren’t just challenging textbooks and curricula. They’re challenging feelings.

Behind the curriculum debates lurks a deeper question about what it means to form citizens.

His ongoing exploration of political instability feels excruciatingly relevant.

It’s getting harder to believe in the vindication of history.

Early on, I got caught up in the logic of the Spirit—and in the steady beat of black life.

Yair Mintzker doesn't know. He's more interested in why other historians keep trying to write a 19th-century novel about the 18th-century case.

We can’t all be Indiana Jones, but now we can read about why archaeology matters.