The Historian

The J. Paul Getty Museum, in Malibu, California, recently exhibited rare photographs of African Americans from the period of slavery through emancipation and into the early years of freedom. This was a landmark in the history of U.S. photography: no...

When Geoffrey Barraclough delivered the Stevenson Inaugural Lecture in 1957, marking his appointment to the Research Professorship of International History at the University of London, he began his address in an entirely characteristic manner. "I want...

Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's estate near Charlottesville, Virginia, is one of the best-known icons of American history. It exudes the grace and charm of the Old Dominion and suggests a static image of immutable history, but the work of the non-profit...

The quincentenary of Columbus' arrival in the New World rekindled interest in the problems seamen faced during the voyages of discovery. Historical studies of early Phoenician travels throughout the Mediterranean have been followed by those of Viking...

STATEMENT BEFORE THE U.S. SENATE, MAY 18, 1995 I served on the advisory committee for the National Air and Space Museum's proposed exhibit, "The Last Act: The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II", because of my engagement with a number of controversial...

Although the port town of Nagasaki had long been a crossroads for East and West, it reached a new zenith when it was designated one of three ports opened to foreign trade and residence following the arrival of Commodore Perry and his "Black Ships" in...

The knight was the central figure of medieval warfare, evolving from a simple mounted warrior in the tenth century to a member of a hereditary landed class. Knighthood was much like a guild: members were required to possess the proper ancestry, to demonstrate...

The massive relief effort engendered by World War I gave women an opportunity to demonstrate and develop their skills on a previously unknown scale. Although generations of women had used philanthropy to "expand their fields of action and their personal...

Migration is a central theme of U.S. history. The nation has been shaped by movement - whether the overseas journeys of immigrants, the overland trek of those who settled the frontier, or the constant flow of the population from country to city to suburb....