History

Feb 22, 2022
The Enduring Timeliness of Frederick Douglass’s Last Major Speech
HISTORY
by Olivia B. Waxman
Feb 21, 2022
How Wealthy Were the Founding Fathers?
IDEAS
by Willard Sterne Randall
Feb 18, 2022
How Eleanor Roosevelt Worked to Stop Her Husband Approving Japanese Internment Camps During World War II
HISTORY
by Francine Uenuma
Feb 18, 2022
History Demands We Preserve the Wreck of America's Last Slave Ship
IDEAS
by Ben Raines
Feb 17, 2022
The U.S.-Mexico Border Has Long Been a Magnet for Far-Right Vigilantes
IDEAS
by Patrick Strickland
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Feb 16, 2022
The Speech That Launched Frederick Douglass’s Life as an Abolitionist
HISTORY
by Linda Hirshman
Feb 14, 2022
How World War II's ‘Dear John’ Letters Changed American Society
HISTORY
by Susan L. Carruthers
Feb 8, 2022
These Racist Depictions of Native Americans Still Decorate the U.S. Capitol
IDEAS
by Erin L. Thompson
Feb 7, 2022
Black Politicians Elected in the South After the Civil War
HISTORY
by Olivia B. Waxman and Arpita Aneja
Feb 3, 2022
The 1950s Wasn’t the Period of Conformity We Often Think of It As
IDEAS
by James R. Gaines
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Jan 31, 2022
Why Toni Morrison Books Are Frequent Targets of Book Bans
HISTORY
by Olivia B. Waxman
Jan 28, 2022
A Brief History of Cats in the White House
HISTORY
by Olivia B. Waxman
Jan 27, 2022
A Lesson of the Holocaust: One Person Can Make All the Difference
IDEAS
by Gideon Taylor and Dani Dayan
Jan 24, 2022
Schools Rethink History Lessons Amid Anti-Asian Racism
U.S.
by Katie Reilly
Jan 17, 2022
How Martin Luther King Jr. Changed His Mind About America
IDEAS
by Kermit Roosevelt III