David Armitage

Historians' prohibition on 'presentism' crumbles under the weight of events.

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

Amid contention, criticism, and compromise, a divided nation had to present a unified front. It came at a cost.

The more that historians make their own experiences an explicit part of their work, the harder it will become to let the sources speak clearly.

A new book examines military manuals as a genre to understand what armed counter-revolutionaries think of as the right way to do what they do.

There is no American history without the histories of Indigenous and enslaved peoples. And this past has consequences today.