Andrew Nelson

The Civil War, World War II, and today: Andrew Nelson says they are points in history where we have come close to losing our democratic republic of the United States of America.

The teacher shortage is at crisis levels — and Andrew Nelson says treating teachers like "thought criminals" is only making things worse.

Andrew Nelson tells politicians where to go, if they invoke comparisons to a horrific time in human history.

The plague, the 1918 flu, smallpox — We can learn a lot about our future from our past. Andrew Nelson has a modest proposal...

Who's to blame for the ongoing pandemic? Andrew Nelson explains that it's a lot more complicated than you think.

Unite or perish: Andrew Nelson says a 401-year-old lesson is key to our nation's future.

Andrew Nelson acknowledges the hardest-working people in America — who don't get the respect they deserve.

Commentator and teacher Andrew Nelson says "no whitewashing, no demonizing, just the truth" when it comes to teaching history to children.

I’m reading The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President, by Noah Feldman, which takes a deep dive into Madison’s role in creating the…

Southern diarist Mary Chestnut wrote the following in the ever-escalating period leading up to the Civil War: “We are divorced North from South, because…