May 2, 2026 | Features, Ideas
Too many Americans think that the study of history is strictly a partisan matter. From that perspective, they expect history teachers to train students for fighting in the culture war. To one side of the political aisle or the other, they treat history, in other...
Nov 26, 2024 | Commentary, Ideas
“History,” said Donald Kagan, “it seems to me, is the most useful key we have to open the mysteries of the human predicament.” Professor Kagan made this bold claim near the end of his 2005 Jefferson Lecture, “In Defense of History” where, having explored the...
