History

Ulysses S. Grant and Schuyler Colfax taking the oath of office administered by Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase on the east portico of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C, March 4, 1869, before a large crowd.

As Trump Plans to Skip Biden's Swearing In, Here Are 3 Other U.S. Presidents Who Dodged Their Successors' Inauguration

The image of the past and present President at the U.S. Capitol is seen as ...

The image of the past and present President at the U.S. Capitol is seen as an image of the continuity of government

Demonstrators perched atop of the United States Embassy wall, burn an American flag, the fourth American flag to be burned since the students seized the embassy and more than 60 hostages Nov. 4th. demonstrators also burned an effigy of President Carter, Nov. 9th.

The U.S. Capitol Attacked Reminded Me of the 1979 US Embassy Seizure and What Happens When Extremism Wins

As the frenzied crowds climbed the walls of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, ...

As the frenzied crowds climbed the walls of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, memories of another moment of national frenzy ran through my mind, those of November, 4, 1979. Then, too, I had stared...

Martin Luther King Jr. at the Federal Bureau of Investigation to speak with director J. Edgar Hoover, who had recently called the civil rights leader a notorious liar . The story of the FBI's surveillance and harassment of King is explored in the new documentary 'MLK/FBI'

The FBI's Surveillance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Was Relentless. But Its Findings Paint a Fuller Picture for Historians

J. Edgar Hoover's FBI relentlessly harassed the civil rights leader. Their ...

J. Edgar Hoover's FBI relentlessly harassed the civil rights leader. Their files became an unexpected boon to historians

Our Fragile Optimism

And how to cultivate hope in the face of ugly facts

Dr. Martin Luther King with his mother Alberta and his wife, Coretta, smiling and cheerful during a press conference at Harlem Hospital, N.Y., in 1958.

Alberta King, Martin Luther King Jr.'s Mother, Made Her Own Contributions to Civil Rights

On a hot, humid September day, I walked into Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth...

On a hot, humid September day, I walked into Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth home, a two-story Queen Anne style house on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, entering with a group of visitors from all over...

An illustration of American President-elect Abraham Lincoln walking near a railroad engine in Washington, D.C., on February 23, 1861, with detective Allan Pinkerton, who foiled a plot to assassinate Lincoln ahead of his inauguration that year.

'Alarmingly Similar.' What the Chaos Around Lincoln's First Inauguration Can Tell Us About Today, According to Historians

The walk-up to Lincoln's first inauguration was also dramatic, and much of ...

The walk-up to Lincoln's first inauguration was also dramatic, and much of it will sound familiar to Americans today

Civil Rights activist Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. standing at pulpit delivering a sermon as a white-robed choir listens in the background at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia.

How One Atlanta Church Impacted Martin Luther King, Jr., the Civil Rights Movement and Incoming Sen. Raphael Warnock

King, like Warnock, was a pastor at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church.