William “Bill” Hanchett was a Berkeley-educated history scholar. He was a civilian historian for the U.S. Air Force and for more than 30 years taught U.S. history at San Diego State University, where ...

By this Declaration, Americans asserted their unwillingness to be serfs or vassals to an unaccountable ruler, but rather as ...

You never wanted liberty for all. You wanted control. You wanted obedience. You wanted the right to never be challenged. And ...

From Chile's disappearances to North Korea's military parades, the warning signs of authoritarianism that we've witnessed ...

Joe Biden on Monday left a personal letter addressed to his successor in the Oval Office, returning the gesture Donald Trump ...

Letter twisted Mideast history, Hamas’ goals Editor: They say that ignoring the lessons of history is the best way to pretend it does not exist. In our society, unfortunately, not enough ...

I very much agree with Marc Morial's views in a recent guest column regarding the current efforts to whitewash history. Growing up in the 1960s in an all-White small Pennsylvania ...

Andrew Carroll, founder of the Legacy Project, poses with a letter written by a U.S. service member in April 21, 1945, that helped inspire the effort to start collecting letters written by troops ...

His love letters aren't sappy, but they do reflect his honest love for Emma and the genuine excitement he felt at his impending nuptials. “How I do hope you shall be happy as I know I shall be ...

Inside are more than two dozen original letters, creased and faded, bullet-torn and tear-stained, spanning 225 years of American war history, from the early days of the Revolution to 9/11.

Steve Niforatos’ recent letter, “Bombs were dropped for a reason,” was spot on in its criticism of a ridiculous Chicago Tribune opinion article that asks Americans to take a new look at our ...

A history of presidential letters to successors, as Trump gets his second. Ronald Reagan scribbled a note in 1989 to his successor above an elephant cartoon.