THE HYSTERICAL HISTORIAN
Historians are a dour lot, but Sarah Vowell looks at America with dark amusement. And that voice!
THE WELL-BEHAVED WOMAN BEHIND 'WELL-BEHAVED WOMEN...'
How an unknown grad student, mother of five, became a historian, an inspiration, a meme.
TRUTH'S OWN HISTORIAN -- JILL LEPORE
Despite three jobs — professor, New Yorker writer, mother — Jill Lepore solved the mystery. “Who Killed Truth?”
HARPERS FERRY -- HISTORY'S PERFECT FRAME
Two rivers and three states converge to make Harpers Ferry astonishing. But John Brown also made it historic.
HAMILTON'S OTHER HALF
Broadway’s biggest hit celebrates the Founding Father, but without Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, there would have been no “Hamilton.”
DUELING HISTORIES (VIDEO)
Why are Americans so divided? Whole books have tried to answer. The Attic explains it in three minutes (and change.)