By Colleen Flaherty. Historians' panel centers on what it takes to write good military history. Hint -- it's not brass. Read more...

By Colleen Flaherty. Historians debate the value and place for Confederate monuments, memorials and other symbols. Read more...

By Stefanie Botelho. There has long been a public fascination with crime, and a new digital archive from Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, brings more than 2 million pages of primary source material to support the study of nineteenth century history, literature, law and criminal justice. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. On May 14, 1909, Science magazine published a piece by a Stanford mechanical engineer named Guido Hugo Marx with some interesting numbers. In 1870, Germany had one person per two thousand enrolled in one of its institutions of higher education, but by 1907, it was one per mil (.001). Comparatively, the US had one college student per seven hundred inhabitants in 1885, and one in every four hundred in 1905. More...