In 1915, Woodrow Wilson famously praised the film The Birth of a Nation for “writing history with lightning.” […]

Less than a decade after C. Vann Woodward’s epic tome, Origins of the New South (1951), had been published, […]

The recent release of Jose Padilha’s reboot of the RoboCop franchise offers ToM another opportunity to indulge in […]

The Elite Eight is upon us, and the Final Four will be decided in a few short days. […]

For a website dedicated to the concept of “historiography for the masses,” perhaps it was only a matter […]

Thirty years after its original publication, Barbara Fields’s essay, “Ideology and Race in American History,” remains one of […]

For several months prior to the Iowa Caucuses of January 3rd, 2012, Rick Santorum, the former US Senator […]

Since Alex has provided a detailed and insightful review of Margaret Pugh O’Mara’s Cities of Knowledge: Cold War […]