Current Events that Relate to History

By invoking the American Revolution, 20th-century anticolonial figures connected their project with the movement for civil rights in the United States.

While working on the Smithsonian's Till exhibit, I learned how ideas about masculinity factored into the boy's murder.

The supercharged bad faith of “constitutional originalism” threatens everything we hold dear.

H.W. Brands on the early career of our first president.

Mordecai Kaplan, founder of Reconstructionist Judaism, took his sermons very, very seriously.

The historian Ada Ferrer’s new memoir retells the story of the island through the “utterly ordinary people” who matter most to her.

Voting, a right not initially enshrined in the Constitution, has been secured, revoked, and contested since the nation's founding era.