Christopher Moore's History News

There's a big poll out in the US that has Kamala Harris leading in every single age and gender grouping except one:  men over sixty, who...

The leading historians of the American Civil War, Reconstruction, and nineteenth century constitutional politics are turning up in droves to...

Filmmaker and writer Julian Sher, who had a lively piece in the April-May 2023  Canada's History on a Canadian corner of the American C...

Okay, this blog says "History (mostly Canadian)," but we can go abroad from time to time.   One of my summer reads, on the recomme...

For several months, the New York Times's 1619 Project has been attempting to convince Americans that their country's real founda...

History News Network links to an essay in the current Atlantic magazine by the remarkable American historian Annette Gordon Reed. It...

There is a heartbreaking story in a recent New Yorker that speaks volumes about the unhappy state of the United States. As the war on ab...

Warren Hastings impeached,  acquitted in Britain, 1795 Jill Lepore, Harvard historian, New Yorker writer, and Cundill Prize nominee, ...

19th century New Englanders torch a Catholic church in Bath, Maine Franco-American historian David Vermette has a notable piece on the...

Today is the 150th anniversary of the completion of the first transcontinental railroad, at some place in Utah.  (What, you thought the CPR...

Most interesting thing I have read on things Americanah since the election is Ta-Nehisi Coates's long essay for The Atlantic , "...

Amid all the bicentennial publications a few years ago, I thought Alan Taylor's The Civil War of 1812 was the book that really neede...

Donald Trump was born in 1946, Hillary Clinton in 1947, Bernie Sanders in 1941. This is not the beginning of the end of the US democracy. ...

I avoid podcasts because, while I can read quickly through the longueurs of a long text, I can't speed-listen, and I tend to get bored...

There is something appealing in the calculation that at least the nomination of Donald Trump as Republican candidate for the American presi...

Did you hear about the Republican presidential nomination candidate who was so wrong that the other Republican presidential nomination cand...

Princeton University Press has a recent book, War Plan Red , about American plans for the invasion of Canada in the 1930s and -- sweet re...

Democratic Party presidential aspirant Bernie Sanders, responding to the Black Lives Matter campaign against police killings of black Ame...

Being rich and right wing -- jeez, it seems to mean you can believe anything that sustains your situation. This is Very Serious Economist  ...

That debate over display of the Confederate flag that developed after the Charleston church murders is no longer exclusively American. The ...