S+B: Historians have, well, historically been content to leave current events to journalists. But you spend a lot of time writing, teaching, and thinking about what is happening now. How do you ...

LaGarrett King is the director of the Center for K-12 Black History and Racial Literacy Education at the Univesity at Buffalo. (Photo courtesy St. Thomas University) This is your first of three free ...

For years, bands of educators have been trying to free history instruction from the mire of memorization and propel it instead with the kinds of inquiry that drive historians themselves. Now, the ...

The resurgence of inflation in the United States has roused political concern and stirred the Federal Reserve to pivot from patience to seemingly urgent action. Higher inflation has also led to ...

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This article is one of the winning submissions from the first annual New York Post Scholars Contest, presented by Command Education. Any New York high schooler can tell you all about Rosa Parks. It ...

The Munich Agreement is one of the most criticized diplomatic agreements in history. In 1938, Adolf Hitler turned his sights on absorbing the Sudetenland, the part of Czechoslovakia dominated by ...

A review of “The Historians,” by Eavan Boland, “American Melancholy,” by Joyce Carol Oates, “Now We’re Getting Somewhere,” by Kim Addonizio, “The Caiplie Caves,” by Karen Solie, “Beethoven Variations, ...