San Diego, no longer the “sleepy pueblo” of yesteryear, is today a modern metropolis (the second largest in California) with a county population exceeding three million. A popular year-round destinati...

What do George W. Bush, Angela Merkel, and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva have in common? They all head governments that have been embroiled in controversy over their reluctance or outright refusal to make...

Few people would challenge Jerry Z. Muller's contention that "Style is Not a Luxury Option" in historical writing.1 Although many beautifully written histories appear each year, there are also books i...

We live in a Global Economy —One of 150,000 lessons listed on Lesson Planet, A Search Engine for Teachers The World is Flat —Thomas Friedman Arguing against globalization is like arguing against th...

My institution, Pittsburg State University, has been a partner in four Teaching American History grant projects in eastern Kansas. We knew from the beginning that our goal was to enhance the teaching ...

The architecture’s perfect. You could shoot 360 degrees. But the great bonus that I did not anticipate was the refugees. There were hundreds of thousands of Iraqi refugees, many of whom are actors bec...

Every weekday morning, nowadays, I start work with a trip. I rise, like most codgers, before the sun. I make coffee. And then I down sit at the computer and let it take me on a virtual journey across ...

Winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for biography; life member of the AHA David Herbert Donald’s untimely death on May 17, 2009, gives us an opportunity to reflect on the virtues of one of the most accompli...

According to a new federal survey, the number of history PhDs conferred in 2005 fell to the lowest level in almost a decade—down to 924 degrees from 975 the year before—and it appears the number of hi...

Rarely is a historian's death an occasion for a front-page article in the "Week in Review" section of the New York Times. Sam Tanenhaus's meditation on Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.'s contribution to publ...