History, the study of documented events and change over time, is at its foundation the study of people—singularly and collectively, with their shared and conflicting natures, choices, attitudes and ...

As a historian working in professional military education, I find myself in the awkward position of warning strategists and students alike against drawing too many lessons from history. As quick ...

However, I’ve observed that we don’t always learn from historical events, be they in geopolitics, our personal lives or our professional experiences. In my view, that’s to our detriment because, as ...

As we build up so many lessons over time, it often baffles me why we don’t learn more from what we’ve gone through—as professionals, as learners, and as humans. These days, we seem to move in ways ...

North Carolinians discuss Civil War monuments, slavery and the U.S. Constitution. Eight North Carolinians come together to discuss Civil War monuments, how to discuss the history of slavery in ...

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My 30 students sat quietly for a moment as our lesson on Juneteenth ended, absorbing how the enslaved people of Texas didn’t hear about their emancipation from enslavement until two years after the ...

A new exhibit at the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum reminds us that before some of the really terrible recent Supreme Court decisions, there was a series of awful decisions through the ...