Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgements to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the U.S. Navy’s Victories at Coral Sea and Midway. By Dale A. Jenkins.

Over the past four decades, scholars in the American humanities have used deconstruction — a style of interpretation pioneered by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida — to question the binary ...

T here is much at stake in the shift from the present to the past — and so it is with Timothy Brennan’s recent Chronicle essay, “What Was Deconstruction?” In the headline’s formulation, the end of ...

Here are five stories we tell ourselves — five famous history stories that you have heard all your life — that aren't true. Not only are they not true, but historians have known they aren't true, said ...

Resurrecting two centuries of long-ignored American history, a pair of African American members of Congress said Wednesday that at least 400 slaves helped construct the U.S. Capitol building and ...

LITTLE ROCK — Now I discover that much of what I’ve been taught about the history of our nation has been incomplete, inadequate and just flat wrong. Wish you could have been with me at the gathering ...