In March of 1983, a public relations official at Boston University asked Joseph Boskin, a scholar of humor in the history department, whether he knew anything...
Edward Countryman, a historian whose wide-ranging studies of the various groups — politicians, laborers, Native Americans and more — at work during the American Revolution helped...
Thomas Hoobler, who with his wife, Dorothy Hoobler, wrote 103 books across a vast range of subjects, including young-adult biographies of Margaret Mead, mystery novels set...
It takes a lot for me to lose patience. My first biography, “The Peabody Sisters,” about three unsung heroines of New England’s Transcendentalist movement, took two...
A sweeping history of Native Americans and a study of the creation of the port of Los Angeles in the 19th century have won this year’s...
THE TROUBLE OF COLOR: An American Family Memoir, by Martha S. Jones When Martha S. Jones was a student at SUNY New Paltz, she took a...
Ken Burns was in his studio working on the final edits of a forthcoming documentary film series on the American Revolution when he learned on Tuesday...
William E. Leuchtenburg, a historian whose books cemented the place of Franklin D. Roosevelt among the greatest American presidents, died on Tuesday at his home in...
The leadership of the nation’s largest group of professional historians announced on Friday that it had vetoed a member-approved resolution condemning “scholasticide” in Gaza, saying that...
