Amy Murrell Taylor has won the $1,000 George and Ann Richards Prize for the best article published in The Journal of the Civil War Era in 2025. The article, “More Than a ‘Pile of Rude Boards’: Space, ...

Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America’s First Opioid Crisis. By Jonathan S. Jones. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2025. Softcover, 412 pp. $39.95. Reviewed by Tim Talbott...

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This is why you need a plan: to read attentively but efficiently, and sustainably, without surrendering your book-life balance.

The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

The Founders had disagreements about the role of religion in America’s public schools, but there was always one line they would not cross.

The National Endowment for the Humanities, which supports museums, scholarship and historical sites, could see grants curtailed and staffing slashed by up to 80 percent.

Circumstances in which people are feeling extreme disorientation are potent breeding grounds for people who are willing to exploit it to take advantage in moments of crisis.

The American Historical Association (AHA) and the Organization of American Historians (OAH) have released a joint statement condemning federal censorship of American history.

Denzel Washington reenacted the heroics of Sgt. William Carney in the movie "Glory." The Pentagon removed a story about him for DEI reasons.

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