The first issue of Christian History magazine, launched by Kenneth Curtis in 1982, was clear about its purpose: "An awareness of Christian history is one of the most ...

Most historians are lucky to have readers. Zinn has fans. A People’s History made him, by the standards of historians at any rate, a celebrity. In the early 2000s, he coordinated stage performances ...

Wikipedia has spent decades being the internet’s favorite rabbit hole. You visit to check one fact, and somehow end up reading about ancient empires, obscure inventors, or a centuries-old battle you ...

As an independent network of nearly 300 historians aiming to build links with policymakers and the media, we have discussed the pros and cons of contributing our expertise to Wikipedia (Editorial, 6 ...

A group of editors are banding together to bring some lesser-known Black history figures to the forefront of our favorite online encyclopedia: Wikipedia. Throughout the month of February, the New York ...

When Ksenia Coffman started editing Wikipedia, she was like a tourist in Buenos Aires in the 1950s. She came to learn the tango, admire the architecture, sip maté. She didn’t know there was a Nazi ...

To help organise your reading for the new year, I have asked publishers about the titles they plan to release in the areas of politics, ­biography and history. For more than 10 years I have been ...

AI is fast changing the way information is created and shared, but speed and scale don’t necessarily mean credibility. Jimmy Wales , who co-founded Wikipedia — harnessing the wisdom of the crowd to ...