I n his recent essay in these pages on the vexed question of “presentism” in the discipline of history, David Bell offers a soothing alternative to the American Historical Association president James ...

Few realize that the approval process for these outdoor signs varies widely by state and organization, enabling unsanctioned displays to slip through History of Now John Garrison Marks - Historian, ...

At the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, the raging battle over how to write about the past — and why — was uncomfortably front and center. By Jennifer Schuessler PHILADELPHIA — ...

The trouble started with a writer on deadline. James Sweet, who goes by Jim, is a white professor of African history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the former president of the American ...