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The First Congressman to Come Out as Gay

By Olivia B. Waxman

Manson Follower Leslie Van Houten Gets One Step Closer to Parole

By Olivia B. Waxman

Henry Kissinger's Lessons for the World Today

By Parag Khanna

What Was Memorial Day Originally Called?

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How Afeni Shakur Put Black Women First In the Fight for Liberation

'When Afeni set out to do something, she did it completely. There was no half stepping,' writes Santi Elijah Holley.

By Santi Elijah Holley

How One Family Told the Story of the Tulsa Massacre

The story of the Goodwin family whose newspaper through the generations documented the Tulsa massacre

By Victor Luckerson

What to Know About the History of the Debt Ceiling

But while a default would be unprecedented, this isn't the first time Washington has been down this road.

By Nik Popli and Olivia B. Waxman

Why Putin Is Right to Fear for His Life

Vladimir Putin knows all too well the history of how tsars and dictators die.

By Simon Sebag-Montefiore

What Martin Luther King Jr. Learned from Coretta Scott King

The complicated story of the marriage of Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King

By Jonathan Eig

The History of the 1973 Standoff at Wounded Knee

Fifty years ago, a standoff between Native Americans and the U.S. government ended. Here's what happened.

By Olivia B. Waxman

What King Charles III Learned From His Notorious Great Uncle

While they are different in many respects, King Charles III did learn a few things from the Duke of Windsor

By Alexander Larman

How We Can Repair Our Democracy and Build a More Perfect Union

If we fail to teach our children the principles of our democracy and the habits of civil dialogue, we will endanger the American project.

By Sal Khan and Jeffrey Rosen

The Forgotten History of the Japanese Balloon Bomb That Killed Americans in World War II

This is not the first time balloon incursions have been of concern to the American public.

By Melissa August

Jordan Neely's Death Reminds Some New Yorkers of the 1984 Bernhard Goetz Case

“We cannot end up back to a place where vigilantism is tolerable,” Al Sharpton said. “It wasn’t acceptable then and it cannot be acceptable now.”

By Olivia B. Waxman

Without Indigenous History, There Is No U.S. History

It is impossible to understand the U.S. without understanding its Indigenous history, writes Ned Blackhawk.

By Ned Blackhawk

Harry Belafonte Dies at 96

The Calypso singer became one of Martin Luther King Jr.’s most trusted confidants

By Andrew R. Chow

Students, Teachers Say AP African American Studies Course Was a Success

Despite the controversy

By Olivia B. Waxman

How Charles' Coronation Will Differ From Queen Elizabeth's

The last time a coronation took place in Britain was when the late Queen was crowned on June 2, 1953.

By Olivia B. Waxman

A Brief History of Purgatory

Early Christians knew about Heaven and Hell, but where did Purgatory come from?

By Peter Heather

What the Debate Over Cleopatra's 'Race' Gets Wrong

A new Netflix show depicting Cleopatra as Black is stirring controversy.

By Armani Syed
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