Historians

The Importance of Place in the American Story

Kate Kelly | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics


Kate Kelly

Being on the Gettysburg Battlefield, I understood service and sacrifice to one's country in a way that I have never understood it before.

Historians Battle Wal-Mart Over Key Civil War Site

AP | STEVE SZKOTAK | Posted 02.02.2009 | Business


LOCUST GROVE, Va. — Wal-Mart wants to build a Supercenter within a cannonshot of where Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant first fought, a propos...

Historians See Little Chance For McCain Victory

Politico | DAVID PAUL KUHN | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics


One week into the general election, the polls show a dead heat. But many presidential scholars doubt that John McCain stands much of a chance, if any....