Opinion

Beyond the Decisive Moment: 'The Truth Isn’t Told in a Single Photograph'

By Stephen Mayes

How President Trump's Immigration Ban Affected This Photographer

By Eman Mohammed

The Purpose of Photography in a Post-Truth Era

By Santiago Lyon

Are Some Years More Important Than Others?

By Lily Rothman
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Steve McCurry: Egypt Must Drop All Charges Against Jailed Photojournalist

Mahmoud Abu Zeid, better known as Shawkan, has been held for three years and could face the death penalty

By Steve McCurry

The Sand Creek Massacre Took Place More Than 150 Years Ago. It Still Matters

On Nov. 29, 1864, hundreds of Native Americans were killed

By Billy J. Stratton

What Trump’s Win Says About the State of Photography in America

"We have failed to get the stories that matter to the people that need to hear them."

By Ed Kashi and Gabriel Ellison-Scowcroft

Donald Trump and the Ninth of November

In 1918, the Ninth of November brought a new order to Germany. In 2016, that date did the same in the U.S.

By David Kaiser

Donald Trump and History's Competing Visions of America's 'Forgotten Man'

Trump's use of the term could mean several different things

By Jefferson Cowie

The White and Black Worlds of 'Loving v. Virginia'

Richard and Mildred Loving—the couple who inspired the new film Loving—lived in a world where race was not simply binary

By Arica L. Coleman

Roger B. Taney's Legacy Was Always Controversial

The Supreme Court justice is the latest figure in a national debate over the future of Confederate monuments on state and city property

By Jeremy Tewell / History News Network

How the 'Jungle' Migrant Camp Fits Into the History of Calais

Calais has come to represent the extremes of the current migrant crisis, in what is only the latest stage in its long history of migration — in both directions — across the Channel

By Fabrice Bensimon / History Today

This Presidential Birthday Party Was 'Worth Dozens' of Campaign Speeches

“We should attempt to leaven the loaf of political content with as much entertainment as possible,” a Young & Rubicam staffer advised in 1956

By David Haven Blake

'The Birth of a Nation' and Nat Turner in His Own Words

"To outgrow the worst aspects of our history and to avoid reviving them, we would do well to understand it as it really was."

By David Kaiser

An Old Phenomenon: The Victim as Criminal

The circulation of images of the dead—and commentary about them—is nothing new

By Arica L. Coleman

Chicago's History With Stop-and-Frisk Laws Is a Warning

Donald Trump has advocated stop-and-frisk policing in Chicago, but the city's history is a cautionary tale when it comes to that policy

By Simon Balto

Whether the Second Amendment Applies to All Citizens Is Not a New Question

The debate is as old as the country itself

By Arica L. Coleman

What We're Missing About Emmett Till's Impact on the World

It took decades to appreciate the full effect of his murder

By James C. Cobb

How Photographs Define the Civil Rights and Black Lives Matter Movements

The gripping pictures documenting the Black Lives Matter movement are just as stirring as Civil Rights era photographs

By Mark Speltz

Pipeline Protest Recalls Decades of Native American Environmental Concerns

A story that goes back to World War II provides one example of why indigenous populations may resist the exploitation of reservation land

By Arica L. Coleman
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