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A famous trial often involves much more than the facts in dispute. It can raise issues that transcend the facts or the parties involved and generate g ...  View More

Join us for a chance to see history from a new angle. David Blight received the Pulitzer Prize for his riveting biography Frederick Douglass: Prophet ...  View More

Conceived decades before the Civil War, the construction of the United States transcontinental railroad began during the war and was completed a few y ...  View More

Jill Lepore knows that it’s not possible to write an encyclopedic history of the United States in one volume. Therefore, she has subtitled her book, w ...  View More

The history of Native America is most often remembered as the story of the dramatic and brutal conflict between Indian tribes of North America and the ...  View More

What happens when a nation faces the collapse of one of its founding and enduring myths? In The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall ...  View More

When the delegates left the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in September 1787, the new Constitution they had written was no more than a prop ...  View More

In 1417, a worldly Italian monk left Rome and headed for the German hills in search of a buried book he believed would transform his decadent, worn-ou ...  View More