History is not a scholarly activity. It is a basic human function. The person who claims to be bored by history is only bored by other people’s history.

One of the biggest mistakes made by American history students is to talk about the founding fathers as a monolith. In truth, they were divided on many issues...

In the summer of 1620, the Pilgrims stalled out in Dartmouth because of the cunning and deceit of the ship’s captain and his crew. They were hired to take the...