Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A historian on TikTok is sparking a debate after breaking down why history degrees are more beneficial than many people think.

Patrick Conley, Rhode Island's first and only historian laureate, did not ask to be reappointed. Eight people have applied to be the historian laureate. The state will not share the names of who ...

The roles of analyst, judge, political campaigner and philosopher are not mutually exclusive. Nor does a historian pick only one of these 'hats' to wear - rather, they overlap and shift. However, all ...

The word "historian" is a relatively unambiguous word. It means simply a man who tries to write history. But the word "history" is thoroughly ambiguous. It may refer to events which have taken place ...

The passing of Gertrude Himmelfarb, who died on December 30th at the age of 97, is a loss felt keenly by all who had the good fortune to know her. To family and friends, she was known as Bea Kristol, ...

Appalachia is this long, diagonal region that stretches from New York state down to Alabama - 400 counties, 25 million people. And the story of Appalachia has been told many times over the decades ...

Niall Ferguson: 'A truly great historian' It may surprise readers of the Guardian to know that Eric Hobsbawm and I were friends. We were poles apart politically, of course. I still remember the ...

If the historian is seen as a more subjective interpreter - not a fiction maker or liar, but nonetheless an interpreter influenced by their particular, personal position - his or her role might be ...

Here, then, is a little piece of history. We know about what John Hogsflesh had to do because his prosecutor, Bishop Sherburne, kept a record of his trial and penance. At its most simple, the role of ...

The roles of analyst, judge, political campaigner and philosopher are not mutually exclusive. Nor does a historian pick only one of these 'hats' to wear - rather, they overlap and shift. However, all ...