Americans are in vital need of the instruction that historians can provide.
As someone who has spent much of my life identifying as a conservative, I can't stand what American conservatism has become.
At Mom's funeral, mourner after mourner spoke about what a wonderful teacher she was. She was certainly devoted to her students.
At the University of California at Berkeley, my interests broadened from military history to diplomatic history and other disciplines.
Catering to populist anger with extremist proposals that are certain to fail is not a viable strategy for political success.
Even getting a college degree does not guarantee a minimal knowledge of U.S. History.
Every four years since 1988, I have voted for the Republican presidential candidate.
Growing up in the 1980s, I remember when the GOP was the party of ideas. Now it's brain dead.
History education in schools is so poor that students often enter college ignorant of the past - and leave just as unenlightened.
I don't know if I can ever change the world, but at least I can change the oil in my car.
I find contentment in the craft of writing and fulfillment in self-expression.
I have been a Republican as long as I can remember.
I love what I do and realize I am supremely lucky to be able to make my living by writing and speaking about the news of the day.
I remain troubled by the deliberate killing of civilians, whether by the United States or by its enemies.
I saw America as a land of opportunity, not a bastion of racism or sexism.
Increasingly I feel like a Jew, an immigrant, a Russian - anything but a normal, mainstream American.
Olga E. Kagan was the strongest woman I knew - and probably the reason I've spent my life with other strong women.
Silence is complicity. All Republicans who stand mute in the face of Trump's latest racism are telling you who they really are.
Unfortunately, history suggests that dictatorial regimes can withstand years, even decades, of economic sanctions.
The case for democracy is that voters in the aggregate will make better decisions than a lone monarch or dictator would.
On both sides of the Atlantic, politics has come to be dominated by vitriolic name-calling and pervasive dishonesty.
Protests are the very essence of America! It is a country founded in protest.
It is, in fact, precisely to defend the right to free speech that countless patriots have given the last full measure of devotion.
Irrationality may be more prevalent in the party of climate denial, but it isn't limited to Republicans.
