History offers no promise of an answer or a happy ending. There is not even a promise of a happy beginning: The further back we go, the less we have to go on. Worst of all, a historian cannot make ...

New Mexico has long been home to famous authors, but when it comes to nonfiction history writing, there are few names that resonate more clearly — or widely — than Hampton Sides. The longtime Santa Fe ...

History is an argument about the past. Your thesis statement should reflect that. Make sure your thesis is precise, relevant to the prompt, and something you can defend with historical evidence.

In 2003, historian Eric Ledell Smith took a deep look at the local history research and writing enterprise in York County. He wrote in Pennsylvania History journal that York County was experiencing a ...

Children at a depot in New York City to greet their parents after a mass strike parade, US, 1911. (Photo by Paul Thompson / FPG / Archive Photos / Getty Images) The many and conflicting ways that ...

Schoolchild’s homework in Greek on a wax tablet, Egypt, 2nd century AD (copyright the British Library) LONDON — A 2,000-year-old wax tablet bears inscriptions of the Greek homework of an Egyptian ...

HAS OUR STORY. STUDENTS FROM SCHOOLS ALL OVER THE AREA GATHERED HERE TO LEARN ABOUT HISTORY AND CELEBRATE THEIR OWN WRITING ACCOMPLISHMENTS AT THE STUDENT BLACK HISTORY MONTH SUMMIT AND ESSAY CONTEST.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — For the fourth year in a row, Duval County Public Schools hosted its African-American History Summer Writing Program. It is an opportunity for students to learn about local Black ...

A fresh look at the ancient world. “Public intellectual.” If the term irritates you, get over it—or substitute your own coinage. What matters is the reality being pointed at, argued over, catalogued.

A statement of threshold concepts in art history “So you’re taking an art history course”: A Description of Writing Characteristics Valued in Art History “This is how we write and do research in art ...