There are times when, no matter how much one researches a subject, things get missed, new documents come to light and a historian must correct something they wrote. This is one of those times. Last ...

A few years ago, an auction house in Boston, Massachusetts, sold a two-page letter written from Newark that was dated March 1834. The letter included a hand-drawn map of the downtown area. It is ...

This article first appeared in Stars and Stripes, May 9, 2014. It is republished unedited in its original form. In his spare Washington apartment, author and popular historian Andrew Carroll stood ...

Editor: Some people invent arbitrary starting dates for history, which impacts their values. A letter about “Biden’s motive for allowing immigration” (Nov 11) cheers Trump’s closing “the border to ...