African American history does not provide a great vantage point on the history of human flourishing. Instead, it is one of the most depressing subfields in American history—second perhaps only to ...

War might not be the locomotive of history, but it drives the writing of the world’s most-published historian. Jeremy Black’s extraordinary body of work regularly returns to themes in military history ...

Over the past year, a spirit of iconoclasm has swept across the United States. Dozens of statues have been removed or toppled by people outraged by the supposed moral failures of the men depicted in ...