Historian Brooks Blevins examines a brutal 1929 murder and rape in the Arkansas Ozarks and demonstrates how press coverage of the...

Candice Millard, author of Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine & the Murder of a President...

Ina P. Montgomery tells the stories of unknown “sheroes,” African American women who toiled in obscurity and rarely made headlines...

Historian Donald R. Hickey, author of The Rockets’ Red Glare: An Illustrated History of The War of 1812, di...

Husband and wife team Monroe and Jean Dodd take a time-traveling journey across the Sunflower State with their new b...

In April 1862 a Union force under Ulysses S. Grant and a Confederate army led by Albert Sidney Johnston clashed in southwestern Tennessee in the Ba...

Author Wade Sisson discusses the Titanic’s sister ship, the R.M.S. Olympic, which steamed 300 miles in a desperate...

The first vice president to occupy the White House after the death of the incumbent, John Tyler was derided by critics as “His Accidency.” Yet histori...

Historian Julie Courtwright explains the role of fire – man-made and natural – in shaping the Great Plains and the lives of its resid...

Noah Feldman examines how four of FDR’s Supreme Court appointees – Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, Felix Frankfurter, and Robert Jack...