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I'm an "Americanist" but I have to admit that I have the most fun digging into the history of Late Antiquity/Early Middle Ages...

Fred Hutchinson offers up the history of 5 strains of conservatism. I excerpt those that have medieval roots: 1) Traditionalist conservati...

National Review editorializes : [U]nder the North American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) — a well-meaning law passed in 1...

Peter Schramm points to a piece by Robert Kaplan about how our modern-day soldiers "want our respect, not pity" and highlights t...

The Dark Ages was a 1,000 year period of "no change" according to this guy : For most of human history, change has been the except...

When I went back to school to get a degree in History for the fun of it, I thought (naively) that getting an MA was a logical first step. Bu...

I took the ISI History Test that so many college seniors at elite universities failed . Results: You answered 57 out of 60 correctly — 9...

Rod Dreher calls attention to Alan Ehrenhalt's 1995 book "The Lost City: The Forgotten Virtues of Community in America," (PD...

Good idea : The Rhode Island Historical Society is about to jump into the digital age. No longer will local history buffs have to drive to...

Its object shall be the promotion of historical studies through the encouragement of research, teaching, and publication; the collection and...

Michael Barone takes a look at Morton Keller's America's Three Regimes: A New Political History and wonders aloud about his own ...

Headline at MSNBC: " Gay marriage goes way back: Historian says men wed as early as 600 years ago in medieval Europe ". Well, not...

I like this idea from Victor Davis Hanson : To encourage our best minds to become teachers, we should also change the qualifications for bec...

In a ProJo story about the annual reading of George Washington's Letter to the Touro Synagogue in Newport, Brown University President ...

Ya know, if a school board can't get it's history right ... The Ogden School District needs a big eraser. After naming a new school ...

Well, maybe someday-when the kids have grown and I can really think about making a career change (or I hit the lottery)--I'll be able to...

Historians have been battling the Bush Administration over changes to the Freedom of Information Act (and rightly so ) as it pertains to Pre...

In the latest dead-tree version of National Review , Michael Potemra reviews Gerald J. Russello's The Postmodern Imagination of Russell ...

What would prompt someone to make a movie about Calvin Coolidge? Well, for starters, it had never been done! And, golly gee, he was an inter...

According to the Politico : Details remain fuzzy, but numerous Republicans argued afterward that they had secured a 215-213 win on their mot...