Edward Gibbon

Is it too late for our republic to learn from Gibbon’s epic history of Rome’s collapse?

The founders anticipated someone like Trump partly because they’d been reading Edward Gibbon’s 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.'

Anxieties about Trump’s presidency are the expression of a tradition as venerable as the United States itself.

Gravely inaccurate 19th-century depictions of the destruction of Rome are used to illustrate parallels between Rome and the U.S.

Lucy Worsley’s PBS series highlights the emotional fallout of the conflict, with a focus on the British perspective.

The subversive insights that a 19th-century Social Gospel crusader came to through efforts to reconstruct the earliest version of the sacred text.

From the French Revolution to January 6th, crowds have been heroized and vilified. Now they’re a field of study.

The author confronts the daunting task of writing about her childhood memory, both as a memoirist and a historian.

A lively defense of narrative history and the lived experience that informs historical writing.

On heavy metal’s fascination with Roman emperors.

The past has habitually been repurposed in a manner inhibiting ethical accountability in the present.

Armed with footnotes, we can save democracy.

White supremacists are co-opting the Middle Ages. Fighting back requires us to tell better, fuller stories about the period.

Historians are losing their audience, and searching for the next trend won’t win it back.