Everyone should study history, and here are 20 books I think everyone should read. They are expressly not the “best” history books ever written: no one can possibly have read the tens of thousands in ...

Celebrate the accomplishments of Black creators, activists and heroes by adding these children's books to your library Vashti Harrison, an award-winning illustrator, wrote and illustrated Little ...

Nearly a century ago, the historian Carter G. Woodson started a movement to teach Black history in America’s schools. First called Negro History Week and now Black History Month, it has been an oasis ...

For many, 2023 was a year of momentous change and loss, marked by events that will be chronicled in history books for generations to come. Longstanding tensions in the Middle East erupted when Hamas ...

James Collett explores Pecos River history in True Tales, Legends and Lore, blending archives with family stories from ...

Americans are notoriously under-educated about their own history — and it’s been well-documented. Headlines in this vein have been popping up for years: Americans Know Little About Civic Affairs; ...

When asked to draw a clock, people with brain damage who suffer from right-side spatial neglect often crowd the numbers and hands on the right side but leave the left side empty. They think the ...

A Slate survey shows that large percentages of popular history books are written by and about men. Perhaps this is why we labor under the delusion that history books are, by their very nature, books ...