Patrick Conley, Rhode Island's first and only historian laureate, did not ask to be reappointed. Eight people have applied to be the historian laureate. The state will not share the names of who ...

A new study by Columbia University historian John Ma has uncovered evidence of a hidden army operating within the Roman Empire during the first century AD. Published in the Journal of Roman Studies, ...

While the academic debate over “presentism” continues to roil the insular world of American historians, a different and far more disturbing narrative about our profession is beginning to take root in ...

The word "historian" is a relatively unambiguous word. It means simply a man who tries to write history. But the word "history" is thoroughly ambiguous. It may refer to events which have taken place ...

Harris, 82, retired as Smithtown’s historian earlier this month after more than four decades in the role. He first moved to Smithtown in 1967 and two years later, became a teacher in the Commack ...

A presidential historian who has accurately predicted the result of nine of the last 10 elections implored Democratic Party leaders once again Monday not to dump President Biden after his catastrophic ...

HISTORY has always seemed to me primarily an art, a branch of literature, a minor branch perhaps, subject to its own rules, concerned with its own issues, pursuing its own objectives, but committed ...

Appalachia is this long, diagonal region that stretches from New York state down to Alabama - 400 counties, 25 million people. And the story of Appalachia has been told many times over the decades ...