Historians are a dour lot, but Sarah Vowell looks at America with dark amusement. And that voice!
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How an unknown grad student, mother of five, became a historian, an inspiration, a meme.
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Despite three jobs — professor, New Yorker writer, mother — Jill Lepore solved the mystery. “Who Killed Truth?”
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Two rivers and three states converge to make Harpers Ferry astonishing. But John Brown also made it historic.
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Broadway’s biggest hit celebrates the Founding Father, but without Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, there would have been no “Hamilton.”
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Why are Americans so divided? Whole books have tried to answer. The Attic explains it in three minutes (and change.)
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