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Bubonic Plague and the Roots of Anti-Asian Hate
By Olivia B. Waxman
How White Violence Crushed the Progressive Change Won During Reconstruction
By Clyde W. Ford
Anti-Abortion Fringe and the Buffalo Shooter
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Before Depp-Heard Trial, Celebrities Shaped Abuse Narrative
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What We Get Wrong About Life Before Modern Baby Formula
As families around the United States grapple with the infant formula shortage, some social media commentators have been asking: why don’t people just breastfeed? Isn’t that what everyone did before infant formula? As a historian...
By Carla Cevasco
May 17, 2022
Montpelier Board of Directors Elects 11 Descendants of Slaves
The board that manages former President James Madison’s estate elected 11 members representing descendants of people once enslaved there.
By Associated Press
May 17, 2022
The Troubled History of Native American Boarding Schools
Last week, the U.S. Department of the Interior released a more than 100-page report on the federal Indigenous boarding schools designed to assimilate Native Americans in the late 19th and the early 20th centuries. Between...
By Olivia B. Waxman
May 17, 2022
The Roe Leak Shows the Supreme Court's Ongoing Effort to Overturn Established Rights
The leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion overruling Roe v. Wade was a shock, but the content of the draft should not have been a surprise. Overruling Roe has been a stated goal of...
By Kermit Roosevelt III
May 16, 2022
Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' Bill Is Part of the State's Long, Shameful History
Florida’s “Parental Rights in Education Bill” has made the sunshine state ground zero in America’s culture wars. Signed into law last month by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, the bill prohibits discussion of sexual orientation and...
By Omar G. Encarnación
May 12, 2022
U.S. Identifies Native American Schools, Burial Sites
The investigation has so far turned up over 500 deaths at 19 schools, though the Interior Department said that number could climb to the thousands or even tens of thousands.
By Felicia Fonseca / AP
May 11, 2022
A Short History of the Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of the Marcos Family
Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. looks set to win the Philippines presidential election, according to the Associated Press. A win would mark the return of the Marcos family to power, more than three decades after being...
By Olivia B. Waxman
May 10, 2022
Our Nation Is Still Divided Along the Battle Lines of the Civil War
Worries about a new civil war in the United States are misplaced because the Civil War never fully ended. That is essential knowledge for understanding current political divisions, especially the recriminations surrounding the leaked draft...
By Jeremi Suri
May 6, 2022
How a Holocaust Survivor Finally Learned Her Own Birth Name
Decades after the end of World War II, a Florida Holocaust museum tracked down a Holocaust survivor's birth name
By Olivia B. Waxman
May 6, 2022
The History Behind Victory Day in Russia
The holiday marks the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in WW II. Now, as Russia's war on Ukraine continues, the day takes on new meaning
By Olivia B. Waxman
May 4, 2022
Inside the Original Roe v. Wade Supreme Court Leak
In 1973, TIME got a scoop on the news of the Roe v. Wade decision. Here's what the reporter behind the story, David C. Beckwith, remembers
By Olivia B. Waxman
May 3, 2022
Dora Maar's Anti-Fascist Worldview Influenced Picasso's Art
The story of the first encounter between Pablo Picasso and his muse, Dora Maar, has been much mythologised. It is said that Maar, aged 29 at the time, was seated alone at the popular cultural...
By Ruth Millington
May 2, 2022
30 Years After the Rodney King Verdict, Why Advocates Believe 'Reforms Didn't Go Far Enough'
Thirty years after the acquittal of four cops in the beating of Rodney King sparked a rebellion in L.A., experts reflect on police reforms
By Olivia B. Waxman
April 28, 2022
Where Trevor Reed Fits Into the History of Prisoner Swaps
"The State Department has a lot more of these negotiations than most people could ever possibly realize"
By Olivia B. Waxman
April 27, 2022
Exiled From France, These Woman Helped Build New Orleans
On Dec. 12, 1719, a ship named “La Mutine,” the Mutinous Woman, left the French port of Le Havre. The frigate was bound for the vast territory in what is now the United States that...
By Joan DeJean
April 26, 2022
3 Myths About JFK
Nearly 60 years after his assassination, myths about John F. Kennedy's time in office persist. The author of a new book on JFK debunks three of the most common
By Olivia B. Waxman
April 26, 2022
The True Story Behind A Very British Scandal
The show—which airs on Amazon Prime April 20—is a tale of sexual desire and aristocratic excess in 1960s Britain.
By Eloise Barry
April 22, 2022
Inside the Fight to Unionize Delta Flight Attendants
When Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants, started to emerge as the most dynamic labor leader in years, issuing calls to arms for workers all over the country, it was newsworthy. The...
By Nell McShane Wulfhart
April 21, 2022
Behind the Racial Disparities in the US Child-Welfare System
"By blaming the parents you're diverting attention away from the structural reasons"
By Janell Ross
April 20, 2022
Behind 'Grand Rapids Nice,' Police Problems Run Deep in Michigan
Like many Midwestern cities, Grand Rapids boasts a progressive image that has obscured deep-seated problems for Black residents
By Olivia B. Waxman
April 18, 2022
The History Behind the Ukrainian Easter Egg Tradition
Decorating a 'pysanka' has become a gesture of peace, as war has brought new meaning to an old tradition that dates back to pre-Christian times
By Olivia B. Waxman
April 14, 2022
Werner Spitz Is a 95-Year-Old ‘Medical Detective’
Even if a murder goes unseen, the body bears witness. And the bodies that Spitz has examined have shaped the course of American history
By Jess McHugh
April 13, 2022
From Rome to Russia, All Societies Manipulate History
Hardly a single nation or country has not molded its history to advantage, writes Richard Cohen.
By Richard Cohen
April 12, 2022
Voter Suppression Grew Up From the Soil of Emancipation Itself
By April of 1870—152 years ago this month—Secretary of State Hamilton Fish had certified the 15th Amendment. After almost a century of the American experiment in democracy, it finally granted African American men the right...
By Kris Manjapra
April 8, 2022
How the Meaning of ‘War Crimes’ Has Changed
An expert on war crimes explains the term and how its meaning evolved
By Olivia B. Waxman
April 6, 2022
How a Post-War Famine in Russia and Ukraine Shaped the 20th Century
The war in Ukraine is not the first to contribute to famine. One of modern history's most noted examples also involved Russia and Ukraine
By Olivia B. Waxman
April 6, 2022
New COVID-19 Funding Doesn't Help Uninsured
When Senators announced on Monday that they reached a deal for $10 billion in additional funding for the coronavirus response, many public health experts were dismayed that the package will not include aid for vaccines...
By Abigail Abrams
April 5, 2022
How an ‘Imposter’ Journalist Changed the Course of World War I
Most Americans wanted the United States to stay far away from the European conflict, but each blockbuster story about German scheming weakened the country’s resistance to war.
By Mark Arsenault
April 5, 2022
Ken Burns' New Documentary Shows Benjamin Franklin in All His Contradictions
“Posterity will never forgive us,” lamented John Adams in the musical 1776 after the Second Continental Congress compromised to omit an anti-slavery passage from the Declaration of Independence. “What would posterity think we were? Demi-gods?”...
By Craig Bruce Smith
April 4, 2022
Britain Can No Longer Hide Behind the Myth That Its Empire Was Benign
Imperial history wars, long-simmering in Britain, exploded when Black Lives Matter crossed the Atlantic in the wake of George Floyd’s murder. Protestors, clad in black face masks, marched to London’s Parliament Square in June 2020,...
By Caroline Elkins
April 2, 2022
The Trailblazing Women Who Changed the Face of Comedy
In October 1983, the Friars Club, that bastion of American comedy royalty, held a roast of comic legend Sid Caesar. Some 2,000 men laughed appreciatively, and among them was not one single woman. Mixed into...
By Shawn Levy
March 31, 2022
Ukraine's Museums Race to Save the Country’s History
“This is a war against our history, our culture,” says Ihor Poshyvailo, a museum director in Kyiv. But Ukraine's museums are fighting back
By Olivia B. Waxman
March 29, 2022
Madeleine Albright, Trailblazing Secretary of State, Dies
Madeleine Albright, the first ever woman to serve as Secretary of State, died at 84 years old
By Katie Reilly
March 23, 2022
Holocaust Survivors in Ukraine Traumatized by Russian War
"I was a little girl when I had to go to the basement and hide from the bombings over Odessa in 1941, and I can't imagine going there again," one survivor told a volunteer
By Olivia B. Waxman
March 23, 2022
The Moment that Changed Colonial-Indigenous Relations Forever
On March 22, 1622, Powhatan fighters killed 347 English colonists in Virginia. The English quickly called it a “massacre.” The colony, founded in 1607, could have collapsed. Instead, the survivors, supported by reinforcements and new...
By Peter C. Mancall
March 22, 2022
The 250th Birthday of the U.S. Is Coming. Cue the Controversy
The Semiquincentennial stands to have a profound effect on the way many Americans understand our shared national past for decades to come
By John Garrison Marks
March 21, 2022
Ukrainian Wheat Is Once Again Changing the Course of History
The forty-mile convoy that was stalled between Prybirsk and the airport northwest of Kyiv is a metaphor: for inattentive tank maintenance, for battalions dependent on artillery, and for a poorly-planned Blitzkrieg. Those tanks and supply...
By Scott Reynolds Nelson
March 21, 2022
The U.S. Tried Permanent Daylight Saving Time Before
"Daylight Saving Time has always been controversial," says David Prerau, author of 'Seize the Daylight'
By Olivia B. Waxman
March 17, 2022
America Still Must Reckon With Slavery's Long and Violent End
“Daddy said he was proud of his freedom, but he was afraid to own it.” Susan High was born after the Civil War, but she recalled her father’s attitude for an interview with the Federal...
By Carole Emberton
March 17, 2022
What the Kennedy's Immigration Story Tells Us About America
In 1958, in response to an alarming uptick in xenophobic chatter, the Anti-Defamation League asked then-Senator John F. Kennedy to write about America’s melting-pot strengths and the need for immigration reform. The resulting essay, “A...
By Neal Thompson
March 17, 2022
Women in Colonial America Were More Powerful Than We Give Them Credit For
During the first act of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton, Aaron Burr remembers his mother, the late Esther Edwards Burr, with intense, almost apotheotic fondness: “My mother was a genius My father commanded respect. When they died...
By Cornelia Powers
March 16, 2022
Why I’m Telling My Mother’s Holocaust Story
It was only later that I realized how much my mother wanted to tell her story—and how much of a difference that story could make
By Maya Lee
March 15, 2022
The Great Fire of 1835 Helped Create Modern New York City
On Dec. 16, 1835, a gale blanketed Manhattan with snow. The merchant Gabriel Disosway remembered how when night arrived it was “the coldest one we had had for thirty-six years.” Then at 9 p.m., members...
By Daniel S. Levy
March 11, 2022
How the Letter 'Z' Fits Into the History of Russian Propaganda Efforts
The letter Z has become an emblem of support for the Russian invasion, but it's just the latest use of symbols to bolster the country's propaganda efforts
By Simmone Shah
March 9, 2022
Putin’s War on Ukraine Shows the Power of History
It is Ukraine’s tragedy that the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, is a textbook example of how to draw the wrong lessons from the past
By Tarik Cyril Amar
March 4, 2022
The History Behind Sunflowers in Ukraine
Throughout Ukraine's history, the flower has been used as a symbol of peace
By Olivia B. Waxman
March 4, 2022
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