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The Woman Who Took on the Fashion Industry to Save the Birds

By Malcolm Smith / History Today

George Washington's Lesson for COVID-19 Vaccine Skeptics

By Robert Brent Toplin / History News Network

The Surprising Political History of the Fight Against the Equal Rights Amendment

By Rebecca de Wolf / History News Network

What We Can Learn From the U.K.'s Mid-Pandemic 1918 Election

By Peter Keeling / History Today
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How a Miniature Emancipation Proclamation Helped Recruit Black Soldiers During the Civil War

The sight of Black soldiers distributing print to other Black people in a state that criminalized the teaching of reading to the enslaved summoned up a future shaped by the possibility of increased self-determination

By Madeline Zehnder / History Today

Alexis de Tocqueville's Warning About Presidential Elections

Tocqueville's writing shows that divisive elections are nothing new—but that what happens after the election has definitely changed

By Kevin M. Cherry / History News Network

What We Get Wrong About Medieval Libraries

Medieval manuscripts reveal the reading communities of the early Middle Ages

By Mateusz Fafinski / History Today

John Adams Lost His Re-Election. How He Responded Set a Precedent That's Been Followed for More Than 200 Years

One thing that John Adams never did was to voice a word of regret about leaving the presidency at his term’s end. None of his successors has ever violated or dishonored the precedent he established

By R. B. Bernstein / History News Network

The History of Infographics During Public Health Crises

A wave of statistical enthusiasm, coupled with new technologies, paved the way for infographics in 19th-century Britain

By Murray Dick / The MIT Press Reader

The History and Politics of the USPS

As the fate of the USPS hangs in the balance, author Ryan Ellis reveals how the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970 changed postal politics

By Ryan Ellis / The MIT Press Reader

The Overlooked Role of Women in the American Revolution

Spinning yarn is work that has become invisible in modern life. But at the dawn of the American Revolution, it was revolutionary

By Marta Olmos / History Today

Darwin, Expression, and the Harmful Legacy of Eugenics

After mapping facial musculature, Darwin went on to create a study that spanned species, temperament, age, and gender

By Jessica Helfand / The MIT Press Reader

150 Years Ago, the Senate Chose Not to Equalize Access to U.S. Citizenship. The Consequences Were Dire

Senator Charles Sumner lost his battle on the Fourth of July 1870, with dire consequences for both Asian immigrant communities and the prospects of a more racially egalitarian America

By Lucy Salyer / History News Network

The Long History of Drinking Games—And How to Win Them

The first guide to drinking is a Latin poem published in 1536

By Michael Fontaine / History Today

Lessons That Can Be Learned From Operation 'Denver,' the KGB’s Massive AIDS Disinformation Campaign

Historian Douglas Selvage sheds light on the operation and how virus conspiracy theories continue to exist till this day

By Mark Kramer / The MIT Press Reader

How the Rise of the Working Wife Changed British Society

A momentous change in the status of women began in the 1950s

By Helen McCarthy / History Today

The $60,000 Telegram That Helped Abraham Lincoln Abolish Slavery

Lincoln's ability to pass what became the Emancipation Proclamation hinged on a successful reelection campaign

By Ainissa Ramirez / The MIT Press Reader

Why Are There 360 Degrees in a Circle?

As Greek geometry developed, it created the concept of an angle as a magnitude

By Mark Ronan / History Today

A Brief History of Invisibility on Screen

The concept of invisibility has inspired a raft of movies over the decades

By Marc Longenecker, Wesleyan University / The Conversation

'Free College' in Historical Perspective

One intriguing clue comes from a 1947 report commissioned by then-President Harry Truman

By John Thelin / History News Network
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