History podcasts offer millions of listeners what classrooms and textbooks often cannot: making the past feel urgent, human ...

Why the work of historical stewardship isn’t just for historians. But this isn’t the story of C. S. Lewis. This is the tale of Sarah Irving-Stonebraker, an Australian historian who was appointed as a ...

In a well-attended — though not packed — Sever Hall 113, I settle into a seat a few rows from the front. On the chalkboard, “Please take a handout” is written in large letters. The sheet, “70 Years: ...

In March, Reason's Nick Gillespie talked with one of the great pioneers of podcasting:Dan Carlin, the host of Hardcore History. Carlin's deeply researched and urgently delivered takes on everything ...

AT THE ANNUAL town meeting in Newport in the spring of 1870, a warrant was put forth “To see what action the town will take in regard to a History of the town …” The measure passed, and a committee ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. The historian Rob Boddice sat cross-legged on his couch in Montreal on a frigid day last winter and conjured ...