History, the study of documented events and change over time, is at its foundation the study of people—singularly and collectively, with their shared and conflicting natures, choices, attitudes and ...

As we build up so many lessons over time, it often baffles me why we don’t learn more from what we’ve gone through—as professionals, as learners, and as humans. These days, we seem to move in ways ...

A new exhibit at the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum reminds us that before some of the really terrible recent Supreme Court decisions, there was a series of awful decisions through the ...

However, I’ve observed that we don’t always learn from historical events, be they in geopolitics, our personal lives or our professional experiences. In my view, that’s to our detriment because, as ...

In honor of Women’s History Month, we invite you to reflect on the lives of notable women and girls in history and today. By Natalie Proulx How are you making sense of this news? Whether you already ...

The past, famously, is a foreign country. Unfortunately, it often seems that “foreign wars” fought before 1900 are too distant to find their way into our policy analysis. And without understanding the ...

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Texas leaders are reviewing new social studies standards that could change how students learn about history, slavery, and ...

There are a lot of games out there, and you can learn a lot of things from them. Quick-thinking, storytelling methods, how to work out probability, tactics and strategy, and maybe even empathy if you ...