History

The Oakland Municipal Auditorium being used as a temporary hospital during the influenza pandemic of 1918, in Oakland, California.

The World Changed Its Approach to Health After the 1918 Flu. Will It After The COVID-19 Outbreak?

As the world grapples with a global health emergency that is COVID-19, many...

As the world grapples with a global health emergency that is COVID-19, many are drawing parallels with a pandemic of another infectious disease – influenza – that took the world by storm just over 100...

U.S. President Barack Obama presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to NASA mathematician and physicist Katherine Johnson at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 24, 2015.

Hidden Figures Hero Katherine Johnson Reminded Us That Space Was Never Safe From America’s Worst Impulses

Nor was NASA excluded from the nation's evolution

U.S. President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of the U.S. Congress in the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC on Feb. 28, 2017.

'You Never Find Quiet Except Under a Tyranny.' Congress Has Always Been Partisan and That's a Good Thing.

In the throes of the worst crisis in American history, the Civil War, Democ...

In the throes of the worst crisis in American history, the Civil War, Democrats in Congress repeatedly attacked Abraham Lincoln as a “tyrant” and even his fellow Republicans questioned his competence and investigated his generals....

Malcolm X during a speech at a rally as others look on. It's been 55 years since Malcolm X was assassinated while speaking at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, New York on Feb. 21, 1965.

The Enduring Mystery of Malcolm X's Assassination

February 21 marks the 55th anniversary of Malcolm X's murder

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), the sixteenth President of the United States.

Abraham Lincoln Healed a Divided Nation. We Should Heed His Words Today.

Abraham Lincoln repeatedly tops polls as our greatest and most revered pres...

Abraham Lincoln repeatedly tops polls as our greatest and most revered president. But few people thought so on March 4, 1865, when he took the oath of office for the second time. On that day,...

Washington Crossing the Delaware (by Emanuel Leutze, American, 1816 - 1868), 1851. The painting documents Washington's crossing of the Delaware River on the night of December 25-26, 1776, as part of a sneak attack at the Battle of Trenton during the American Revolutionary War. From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Oil on canvas.

'History Has Been Told About Men, for Men, by Men.' How One Historian Wants to Bring a New Perspective to George Washington

An all-woman team worked on 'You Never Forget Your First,' from author to i...

An all-woman team worked on 'You Never Forget Your First,' from author to illustrator to editor

'You Shall Never Be a Bystander.' How We Learn About the Holocaust When the Last Survivors Are Gone

On the morning of January 27th, 1945, the first Red Army soldier walked int...

On the morning of January 27th, 1945, the first Red Army soldier walked into Auschwitz death camp, and the 7,500 remaining prisoners knew they were finally free. More than 1.1 million people died in the...