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Why We Can't Ignore Our Dreams
By Sidarta Ribeiro
How History Erased the Black Mariner Who ‘Opened’ the Pacific
By Andrés Reséndez
MIT Reckons with Its Role in Harming Native American Tribes
By Associated Press
What the History of Money Says About Its Future
By Jacob Goldstein
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History
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
How a TIME Art Critic Covered Chuck Close Across the Decades
The American artist, who died on Aug. 19, is remembered through the writing of the TIME art critic Robert Hughes.
By Andrew R. Chow
August 19, 2021
U.S. COVID-19 Deaths Top Civil War's Toll
Today’s COVID-19 death toll shows that many have approached the virus with a medical attitude hardly updated from 160 years ago
By Rachel Lance
August 14, 2021
Column: American Schools Are Failing to Equip Students With Racial Literacy
Research has shown that kids start developing signs of prejudice and stereotyping at 3 or 4 years old. Yet, the first time we discussed race in school was at 15 years old—far too late to learn that we had as much dignity as other young people
By Winona Guo
August 13, 2021
How Robert F. Kennedy Shaped His Brother's Response to Civil Rights
During the integration of the University of Alabama in 1963, Robert F. Kennedy played a pivot role in shaping the White House response
By Patricia Sullivan
August 11, 2021
George Washington's Order to 'Inoculate the Troops' Saved America
George Washington saw smallpox as "the most dangerous enemy"
By Craig Bruce Smith
August 9, 2021
This Pioneering WWII Officer Faced a Daunting Mission
The “Six Triple Eight” was the only Black WAC unit to be deployed—and faced an impossible-seeming task
By Mari K. Eder
August 3, 2021
Read an Excerpt From the New John Lewis Graphic Memoir 'Run'
In an excerpt from the new installment of John Lewis' graphic-novel memoir, the late Congressman grapples with a changing civil rights movement
By John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
August 3, 2021
How Emmett Till's Story Defines the Fight for Racial Justice
Elizabeth Alexander on how his story still defines the ongoing fight for racial justice.
By Elizabeth Alexander
July 25, 2021
Working for J. Edgar Hoover, I Saw His Worst Excesses and Best Intentions
Some people have tough bosses. Back in 1966, mine was one of the most feared men in America. J. Edgar Hoover had been running the FBI for an unfathomable forty-one years on the morning I...
By Paul Letersky
July 22, 2021
Did Vodka Cause the Russian Revolution?
Prior to prohibition, no less than one-third of all state revenue of the mighty Russian empire came from selling vodka to its own people
By Mark Lawrence Schrad
July 20, 2021
Zaila Avant-garde Knows Spelling Bee History Is Troubling
Zaila Avant-garde made history as the first Black winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, but true equality in spelling remains elusive
By Janell Ross
July 16, 2021
'The Myth Itself Becomes a Stand-in.' What Can the Alamo's History Teach Us About Teaching History?
Less than a month after Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law a bill he described as "a strong move to abolish critical race theory in Texas"—which educators worry will limit how they can talk...
By Olivia B. Waxman
July 13, 2021
You Can't Tell the Story of 1776 Without Talking About Race
Slavery and arguments about race were not only at the heart of the American founding; it was what united the states in the first place. We have been reluctant to admit just how thoroughly the...
By Robert G. Parkinson
July 4, 2021
Loving Your Country Means Teaching Its History Honestly
Why do you love the United States of America? There is no better time to ask that question than on Independence Day. The answer to that question can and should tell us a great deal...
By David French
July 2, 2021
Why the Myth that Vikings Discovered America Is Problematic
Who discovered America? The common-sense answer is that the continent was discovered by the remote ancestors of today’s Native Americans. Americans of European descent have traditionally phrased the question in terms of identifying the first...
By Gordon Campbell
June 29, 2021
The Woman Who Took on the Fashion Industry to Save the Birds
A global trade in feathers, with London at its heart, saw hundreds of millions of birds killed every year. Emily Williamson waged a long and furious campaign against it
By Malcolm Smith / History Today
June 28, 2021
How One Drag Performer's Overlooked Activism Helped Lay the Groundwork for Today's Fight for Transgender Rights
In the Los Angeles club scene of the 1960s, Sir Lady Java—a dancer, comedian and drag queen—was a two-shows-a-night fixture. “I loved the people that came to see me, it delighted me,” she says, flipping...
By Suyin Haynes
June 25, 2021
Today’s Crypto Fanatics Could Learn a Lot From Isaac Newton’s Money Mishaps
Since January, U.S. financial markets have been on a tear, a wild ride that began as the Biden administration completed its first full week in power. Five months later, the benchmark Dow and the wider...
By Thomas Levenson
June 23, 2021
America's History of Silencing Women Through Psychiatry
The received medical wisdom of the 19th century was that assertive, ambitious women were unnatural, and therefore sick
By Kate Moore
June 22, 2021
The Untold Story of Jewish Commandos in World War II
As we approach the 80th anniversary of America’s entry into World War II, it can sometimes seem as if we know all the stories that there are to know about the conflict. But this assumption...
By Leah Garrett
June 21, 2021
The Long History of Gender Bias in Medicine
The history of medicine, of illness, is every bit as social and cultural as it is scientific. It is a history of people, of their bodies and their lives, not just of physicians, surgeons, clinicians and researchers
By Elinor Cleghorn
June 17, 2021
For HIV/AIDS Survivors, COVID-19 Reawakened Old Trauma
Forty years ago this month, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report noted a rare lung infection among five otherwise healthy gay men in Los Angeles, Calif. Though they...
By Tara Law
June 17, 2021
Why the Golden Age of the American Circus Began to Fade
As the U.S. entered WWI, the Ringling show employed about a thousand people—but forces that would reshape the circus industry had begun to emerge
By Les Standiford
June 15, 2021
Missing From Germany’s Namibia Genocide Apology: Diamonds
The German apology is a commendable step and important precedent. But its parameters are inadequate, and one reason why may be embedded in your family’s heirloom engagement ring
By Steven Press
June 10, 2021
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