What is the past and what can we really know about it? Relying on his groundbreaking technique championing ‘problem-based history,’ Febvre explores whether 16th-century French writer Francois Rabelais was he…

Turner’s much-anthologized 1893 essay argues that the vast western frontier shaped the modern American character-and the course of US history. Interacting with both the wilderness and Native Americans, settlers on…