Historians are a dour lot, but Sarah Vowell looks at America with dark amusement. And that voice!

How an unknown grad student, mother of five, became a historian, an inspiration, a meme.

Despite three jobs — professor, New Yorker writer, mother — Jill Lepore solved the mystery. “Who Killed Truth?”

Two rivers and three states converge to make Harpers Ferry astonishing. But John Brown also made it historic.

Broadway’s biggest hit celebrates the Founding Father, but without Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, there would have been no “Hamilton.”

Why are Americans so divided? Whole books have tried to answer. The Attic explains it in three minutes (and change.)