CHIP JACOBS, WRITER: It's hard for us to imagine what it was like that day in July 1943. It appeared quite suddenly. CHRISTOPHER WELLS, HISTORIAN: Thick, dark, silvery blue clouds descended over the ...

In a photo provided by Chip Weiner shows, Andrew Huse in 2025. Huse a historian whose voracious appetite for telling stories about food as an essential ingredient in culture led him on a quest to ...

Political violence and extreme rhetoric in the United States today mirrors the turbulent 1960s, but with key differences that make the current era particularly challenging, according to presidential ...

As a four-year-old kid in Chicago, Andy Huse would pretend to be a reporter, walking around the house with a notebook in hand. “He would sit there and tell us the news at dinner about who he ...

Professor of history and religion Thomas Tweed urges Americans to consider both the nation’s diverse religious history and the source documents of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution ...

The late Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough told an audience in 2012 that writing history was like working on a detective case. “And once on the case, you want to know more and more and ...

The young Prophet was twice told “no” by the Lord before Harris was permitted to show them to only a few family members. But the pages disappeared and were never recovered. Following severe ...

Heartland Masala: An Indian Cookbook from an American Kitchen isn't just a cookbook, it's a multinational family affair. It was written by mother-and-son duo Jyoti and Auyon Mukharji. Jyoti, a cooking ...

Native Washingtonian Rohulamin Quander died on Aug. 16 from natural causes. Born Dec. 4, 1943, he lived to be 81 years old. Funeral services for Rohulamin Quander will be held Sept. 6 at Saint ...

Eric Foner’s essay collection “Our Fragile Freedoms” demonstrates how our understanding of the past can deepen and grow more sophisticated over time. These are fraught times for U.S. history — certain ...