Harriet Tubman (1822-1913) and Nat Turner (1800-1831) are towering figures in American history. Two stellar books published this year not only do full justice to their legacies, but also illustrate ...

Photo illustration by Lisa Larson-Walker. Photos by Getty Images, via Wikimedia Commons. In recent years, as academic history has taken a turn toward the cultural and social, producing more and more ...

Last week, BBC History Magazine released readers' definitive ranking of the 100 most influential women in history, with Nobel Prize-winning physicist Marie Curie topping the list at No. 1. Because the ...

Black history is beautiful, complex, and, at times, uncomfortable. While so much of our history was stripped from us, the details we know can often be difficult to digest. But all is not strife and ...

V.K. Krishna Menon, India’s defence minister before and during the 1962 Sino-Indian war, was not a popular figure with the service chiefs, who nicknamed him ‘God Almighty’ for his overbearing ways.

As the stay-at-home era drags on, my reading habits have shifted. My mind can’t stick with novels anymore — my brain is somehow out of step with the fictional universe. But biographies continue to ...

I recently read about an elementary school class that was studying the American Revolution. Each student chose a historical figure to write about. When the teacher asked if anyone had picked a woman, ...