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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Why are we forgetting history's lessons? We're told in school that we study history so as not to repeat its mistakes. But what if those lessons aren't sticking? Today's guest regularly invokes what he ...

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As an English teacher in 2016, I spent a summer in the archives of the Brooklyn Historical Society learning about abolition and women’s suffrage efforts. I held original bills of sale of young Black ...