History textbooks love clean narratives. Heroes win, villains lose, and progress marches forward. Except real history is messier than that. What gets left out matters just as much as what makes it ...

As the country marks its 250th anniversary this year, the American president, who returned to the White House on January 20, 2025, has worked to shape a revised historical narrative, revealing signs ...

Re “Trump’s Politics Are Changing How History and Civics Are Taught” (news article, Nov. 7): As the historian John Hope Franklin once observed, “The writing of history reflects the interests, ...