Bennett Parten, a Royston native and assistant professor of history at Georgia Southern University, has done the research and concluded that Georgia was the site of the biggest liberation event in ...

Black History Month, a celebration of Black history, culture and education, kicks off on Feb. 1. Historian and author Carter ...

Out of 28 chapters, three concern the Alger Hiss-Whittaker Chambers Case. The literature on this historical episode is sadly divided into two sides: pro-Hiss or pro-Chambers. These sides generally ...

It has been said that the Weimar Republic died twice,” Timothy Ryback writes. “It was murdered, and it committed suicide.” In his new book, “Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power,” we know who the ...

While we’ve been distracted by the shambles that is American presidential politics, there’s been a change happening in our ...

Partisanship has been leaching into local elections from the open-air market of national divided party politics.

Throughout America's history, there have been many, many attempts to overthrow our democracy — including "The Business Plot," ...

The decision to revise the textbooks was made to remove “exaggerated” accounts in history and include several historic events that had been omitted in the materials, said A.K.M. Riyajul Hasan, ...

Smithsonian's National Museum of American History These addresses are more than just a series of individual speeches. Rhetoric scholars Karlyn Kohrs Campbell and Kathleen Hall Jamieson argue ...

Liberating Ourselves From the American Dream. After the books fell out of print again in the 1920s, they began to be remembered as tales of economic triumph and their protagonists as budding ...

They do, however, have precedents in film, television, literature and the history on which ... As a whole, these books take apart the heroic myths that “American Primeval” critiques with ...

He's set to chair the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee. Sixty years after Black Americans gained the right to vote in the United States through the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Sen.