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The ‘First Thanksgiving’ Story Covers Up the All Too Real Violence in Early America
By Peter C. Mancall
How Tribe That Fed Pilgrims Spends Thanksgiving
By Olivia B. Waxman
The History of Presidential Thanksgiving Proclamations
By Denise Kiernan
The 'Vindicating' Exoneration of 2 Men Convicted of Malcolm X Killing
By Zaheer Ali
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How a Powhatan Tribal Chief Became One of Colonial America’s Greatest Military Leaders
During the late sixteenth century, a great American Indian chiefdom arose along the mid-Atlantic coast of North America. Named Tsenacommacah (densely inhabited land) by the peoples who lived along the rivers and shores of the...
By James Horn
November 17, 2021
Librarians Grapple With Conservatives’ Latest Efforts to Ban Books
On Nov. 8, two members of a Virginia school board called for a book burning. During a board meeting that evening, the Spotsylvania County Public School Board unanimously ordered its school libraries to begin removing...
By Olivia B. Waxman
November 15, 2021
What the True Story of Buffalo Bill Reveals About the Myth of the Wild West
Buffalo Bill is onstage engaged in fierce battle. He and his scouts are fighting a ferocious group of Cheyenne warriors. The audience holds its breath as the terrifying Cheyenne appear to be gaining the upper...
By Ijeoma Olou
November 12, 2021
‘Separate but Equal’ Plessy Pardon Decision Goes to Governor
A Louisiana board voted to pardon Homer Plessy, the namesake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1896 “separate but equal” ruling affirming state segregation laws.
By Associated Press
November 12, 2021
The Complex History Behind
Belfast
—and Its Echoes in Present-Day Northern Ireland
Kenneth Branagh's semi-autobiographical drama is set against the backdrop of escalating violence in late-1960s Northern Ireland
By Alison Garden
November 11, 2021
Why Four Black Women Stood Up to the U.S. Army During WWII
Earlier this year, the women of the 6888th Postal Battalion Directory got a step closer to finally receiving the recognition they deserve. The Senate passed legislation to award the only all-Black Women’s Army Corps (WACs)...
By Kaia Alderson
November 11, 2021
What Early Drafts of Slaughterhouse-Five Reveal About Kurt Vonnegut's Struggles
In the first chapter of Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut’s 1969 anti-war masterpiece about a hapless American soldier who becomes “unstuck in time,” the author indicates that he wrote more than five thousand pages by 1965. But...
By Tom Roston
November 11, 2021
What the 1893 World's Fair Teaches Us About White Feminism Today
In November of 1890, a group of women called the Board of Lady Managers gathered in Chicago, a city that had been chosen as the site for the World’s Fair of 1893. The fairgrounds, an...
By Rafia Zakaria
November 9, 2021
America's Last King Was No Crazy Tyrant
I loved Hamilton: An American Musical for its foot-tapping tunes and witty libretto, but it’s no more an accurate portrayal of history than Shakespeare’s Richard III or Macbeth. For the cruel prancing camp sadist portrayed...
By Andrew Roberts
November 9, 2021
The Impact of Magic Johnson's HIV Disclosure, 30 Years On
For many watching Earvin “Magic” Johnson on television on Nov. 7, 1991, his words were tantamount to an announcement of his own death sentence. In a press conference hastily convened by Johnson and the Los...
By Francine Uenuma
November 4, 2021
How Christians Eager to Unearth the Biblical Past Sparked Strife in Jerusalem
When an Israeli court ruled last month that Jews could pray on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem—if it was done quietly—the surprise decision seemed sure to spark yet another round of unrest in a city...
By Andrew Lawler
November 3, 2021
The Real Black Cowboys That Inspired Netflix's
The Harder They Fall
While the Netflix film is fictional, its characters take their names from real historical figures, like Nat Love and Stagecoach Mary. These are their stories.
By Andrew R. Chow
November 3, 2021
Japan's Royal Women and Their History of Mental Stress
The former princess Mako Komuro is not the only Japanese royal to have experienced issues related to mental wellbeing
By Chad de Guzman
November 3, 2021
Benjamin Franklin Regretted Not Inoculating Son From Smallpox
Parents of elementary school children received great news last week; the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the emergency use of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children 5-11 years old. The Centers for Disease Control...
By Olivia B. Waxman
November 2, 2021
The Long History of Vaccinating Kids in School
Now that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine for kids aged 5 to 11, the Biden Administration has signaled that it will rely on a “trusted messenger” to get...
By Tara Law
November 1, 2021
The Many Lives of H. Rap Brown
He sits in prison after decades of fighting for Black liberation, forgotten by the nation that never understood him
By Rembert Browne
November 1, 2021
The 19th Century Advocate For 'Free Love' and Women's Liberty
When the roots of modern-day polyamory, sexual freedom, and "free love" are discussed, they're often traced back to the 1960s—the era of hippies, the movement for queer rights, and the “sexual revolution.” But in the...
By Olivia B. Waxman
October 29, 2021
Why Fannie Lou Hamer’s Message on Economic Justice Endures Today
Addressing a crowd in Madison, Wisc., in 1971, civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer said she knew what it meant to be hungry. She recalled growing up in the 1920s and 1930s in a sharecropping...
By Keisha N. Blain
October 27, 2021
In Lawsuit Against Texas Redistricting Maps, Plaintiffs See History Repeating
They argue that the new maps would depress Latino voter representation in the state
By Janell Ross
October 22, 2021
Kiyoshi Kuromiya Helped AIDS Patients Get Life-Saving Info
About a twenty-minute walk from the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, in a city of sites dedicated to heroes of the American Revolution, there's a tribute to a hero of the city’s LGBTQ+ community at the...
By Olivia B. Waxman
October 21, 2021
How Climate Chaos Helped Spark the French Revolution
Historians have long observed the links between the natural environment and the fate of civilization. Natural emergencies like droughts, floods and crop failure regularly plunge people into chaos. Long term changes in the earth’s climatic...
By Mike Duncan
October 20, 2021
Why We Can't Ignore Our Dreams
On Mar. 14, 44 B.C.E., Julius Caesar dreamed of flying up through the clouds, until being warmly received by Jupiter. His wife, Calpurnia, however, had a nightmare in which he got stabbed. The following morning,...
By Sidarta Ribeiro
October 18, 2021
How History Erased the Black Mariner Who ‘Opened’ the Pacific
In grade school and beyond, we learn about Christopher Columbus and his pioneering voyage of 1492. Merely two decades after it, however, European explorers stumbled on the Pacific, an ocean roughly twice as large as...
By Andrés Reséndez
October 18, 2021
What the History of Money Says About Its Future
We may be on the cusp of a currency shift now
By Jacob Goldstein
October 15, 2021
The True Story Behind
The Last Duel
—and History’s Attempt to Erase It
The new historical drama starring Jodie Comer, Matt Damon and Adam Driver tells the story of Marguerite de Carrouges. What happened after the events of the film is just as fascinating
By John-Paul Heil
October 15, 2021
Lessons From the 'Empresses' of Ancient Rome
Artists have failed to depict a complete set of Roman empresses, but we can still learn from the individual stories of those ancient women
By Mary Beard
October 12, 2021
The Overlooked LGBTQ+ History of the Harlem Renaissance
Acknowledging the queer culture of the Harlem Renaissance is essential in order to paint a full picture of the period
By Olivia B. Waxman
October 11, 2021
How Columbus Day Became Known as an Italian-American Holiday
How Columbus Day became a U.S. holiday and a source of pride for the Italian-American community
By Olivia B. Waxman
October 8, 2021
Rome Didn't Fall When You Think It Did
In September of 476 AD, the barbarian commander Odoacer forced the teenaged Western Roman emperor Romulus Augustus to resign his office. The Constantinopolitan chronicler Marcellinus Comes would write in the 510s that when “Odoacer, king...
By Edward J. Watts
October 6, 2021
What Smallpox Teaches Us About Controlling Future Pandemics
President Thomas Jefferson in 1806 wrote a letter to English physician Edward Jenner. Ten years earlier, Jenner had intentionally infected a boy with cowpox, in order to protect him against the much more terrifying smallpox...
By Kyle Harper
October 5, 2021
What History Teaches Us About Women Forced to Carry Unwanted Pregnancies to Term
As the full implications of Texas’s severe abortion law come into view, experts on reproductive rights are justifiably concerned about a potential increase in unsafe abortions. And while the specter of coat hangers may seem...
By Kelly O’Connor McNees
September 30, 2021
U.S. Immigrant Detention Centers Began with Haitian Migrants
The Biden Administration condemned a Border Patrol agent’s actions against Haitian migrants in Del Rio, Texas. Historians, however, see a pattern
By Jasmine Aguilera
September 30, 2021
Is Ukraine’s Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Kremlin Propaganda?
On a breezy afternoon last spring, the Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman took me on a tour of a public park near the center of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, along with a team of aides,...
By Simon Shuster/Kyiv
September 29, 2021
The Overlooked American Survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
More than 75 years after the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. 6 and Aug. 9, 1945, roughly 136,000 people are living with the memories—and effects—of the...
By Olivia B. Waxman
September 29, 2021
The Rise and Fall of a Dangerous Political Movement in Revolutionary America
The Brethren did not begin as a tory uprising. Ironically, its members—a group of eastern North Carolina yeomen—believed themselves to be responding to a tyrannical conspiracy against Protestant liberty, and in resistance against forced military...
By Brendan McConville
September 28, 2021
Why We Must Hear the Warning in Frederick Douglass' 'Sources of Danger to the Republic' Today
On Jan. 3, 1867, nearly two years after the end of the Civil War, Frederick Douglass stood before a full house of hundreds of African Americans at Philadelphia’s National Hall. He had been invited to...
By Robert S. Levine
September 24, 2021
How Wealthy American Expats Transformed the British Aristocracy
It could have been a screenplay for one of those gentle comedies that British film studios used to do so well: In 1924, a young American from Portland, Maine, was on vacation in England and...
By Adrian Tinniswood
September 21, 2021
The U.S. Turned Away Jewish Refugees in 1939. We Must Not Repeat History With Afghans Fleeing the Taliban
In May 1939, more than 900 Jewish refugees boarded the MS St. Louis in Hamburg, hoping to flee Nazi Germany for the relative safety of Cuba. Due to the restrictive immigrant quota system in the...
By Frank Sobchak
September 10, 2021
With Monuments, Memorials, U.S. Mourns Locally for COVID-19
They are also pushing for permanent, national recognition of the pandemic’s toll
By Simmone Shah
September 10, 2021
How a Domestic Violence Exposé Ushered In a New Era for the Miss America Pageant
The story of how Carolyn Sapp, Miss America 1992, became an accidental domestic violence crusader marks the moment that a new era for Miss America came into focus. The pageant had barreled out of the...
By Amy Argetsinger
September 9, 2021
What Comes After Richmond's Robert E. Lee Statue?
The removal of Richmond, Va.'s Robert E. Lee statue is a gesture that can only be given lasting substance by what happens next
By Janell Ross
September 9, 2021
50 Years After Attica, Prisoners Protest Brutal Conditions
Despite the protections won by the Attica rebellion, prisoners are calling for the public’s attention to the horrific conditions they endure
By Heather Ann Thompson
September 8, 2021
How the Slave Trade Shaped Epidemiology Today
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, many have been frustrated by the ways in which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) keeps changing its rules and response to the pandemic. What most don’t understand...
By Jim Downs
September 2, 2021
Why Are Conservatives So Afraid of Critical Race Theory?
Republican legislators nationwide are waging a fierce battle to prevent educators from teaching critical race theory—and they’re being helped by conservative Christian leaders willing to intentionally misrepresent their faith for political gain. Take the Conservative...
By Serene Jones and Fred Davie
September 1, 2021
How
Candyman
Reclaims the History of Cabrini-Green
Nia DaCosta's sequel to "Candyman" hopes to provide a different perspective on a long-maligned and now-gentrified Chicago neighborhood
By Andrew R. Chow
August 27, 2021
New Documents Reveal the Origins of America's War On Drugs
Over fifty years ago on June 17, 1971, President Richard Nixon declared to the Washington press corps that America had a new enemy—narcotics. “America’s public enemy number one,” Nixon claimed, “is drug abuse.” To fight...
By Benjamin T. Smith
August 24, 2021
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