Historian Jon Meacham, author of several presidential biographies, thinks that former President Trump helped ignite some of the divisions in the Republican Party. Meacham's new podcast, "Fate of Fact, ...

A presidential historian who has accurately predicted the result of nine of the last 10 elections implored Democratic Party leaders once again Monday not to dump President Biden after his catastrophic ...

Holocaust survivor Saul Friedländer has dedicated his life to writing about Nazi atrocities. Here's the story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. On October 11, 2022, acclaimed historian Saul ...

President Biden's decision to drop out of the 2024 race this late in the election season is a historic moment for presidential politics. NPR's Andrew Limbong chats with historian Timothy Naftali. The ...

The word "historian" is a relatively unambiguous word. It means simply a man who tries to write history. But the word "history" is thoroughly ambiguous. It may refer to events which have taken place ...

A historian has called into question the widely circulated claim that a controversial performance during the Paris Olympics opening ceremony was actually a modern take on Leonardo da Vinci's famous ...

Appalachia is this long, diagonal region that stretches from New York state down to Alabama - 400 counties, 25 million people. And the story of Appalachia has been told many times over the decades ...

In the foreword to his book "Speaking Frankly," former Secretary of State James F. Byrnes wrote: " I have tried, in short, to give you a seat at the conference table. Some critics may say it is too ...