American history, when told well, resists the tidy progressions we like to imagine for it. Two recent works -- Ken Burns and ...

In “The American Revolution,” an illustrated companion to a new documentary series, the conflict is global, gruesome and ...

The early-20th-century socialist and New York mayoral candidate Morris Hillquit saw liberalism and democracy as providing a ...

Loren Goldner reviews John Marrot's "The October Revolution in Prospect and Retrospect: Interventions in Russian and Soviet History" in Insurgent Notes #7.

From A Progressive’s Case for Bitcoin: New Revised Updated Edition, this excerpt examines how Bitcoin empowers peaceful change by challenging systems of power, inequality, and monetary control. I ...

The winner of the 2025 Cundill History Prize will be selected from the shortlist and announced on October 30th, receiving US$10,000. (Cundill History Prize) The Cundill History Prize is administered ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. WESTMINSTER — As legend has it, Ethan Allen (yes, that Ethan Allen) proposed to Fanny Montresor Buchanan, in Westminster in 1783 in a very low key way.

Read all of Slate’s stories about the 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years. On Oct. 8, 2010, the New York Times ran a story on its front page: “Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children.

Entrepreneurship is about using minimum resources and achieving big dreams, C.K. Kumaravel, co-founder, Naturals Salon, said here on Monday. He was speaking at the launch of the book, The One Rupee ...

In a new book, the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argues that an awareness that everyone knows what you know is a powerful driver of human social life. By Dennis Duncan Dennis Duncan teaches ...