Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From Macaulay to Taylor, we pick the history books everyone should read Everyone should study history, and here are 20 books I ...

John von Walter sat in a chair in his impressive, history archive-like downstairs, having to recline a bit to support the large and heavy hard-covered history book he was holding – his. “It got to be ...

Nearly a century ago, the historian Carter G. Woodson started a movement to teach Black history in America’s schools. First called Negro History Week and now Black History Month, it has been an oasis ...

Tremont and West streets in downtown Boston, circa 1895. (Transit Department photograph collection/City of Boston Archives) Boston is known for its great concentrations of history and higher education ...

THE JOURNALS OF FRANCIS PARKMAN (718 pp.)—Edited by Mason Wade—Harper ($10). According to a Harvard classmate, Historian Francis Parkman suffered from “Injuns on the brain.” Even on a tour of ...

Understanding the past "gives us perspective" on current events, said GQ. "And right now, we sorely need perspective." With "war raging in Europe" and Donald Trump causing chaos across the pond, it's ...

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Clark Gable reading the novel "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell. One of his greatest roles was that of Rhett Butler in the MGM film adaption of the book. For history enthusiasts, historical ...