Current Events that Relate to History

Our history too often sidesteps the question of finances. But sonorous ideals don’t keep an army supplied with uniforms, guns, and grub.

How the British occupation of Boston—which ended 250 years ago today—shaped our political sensibility.

In the 1970s, sensors and computers turned the US–Mexico border into a testing ground for automated control.

In the wake of the Cold War, some Soviet bloc spies decided their fake American lives weren’t so bad.

In modern US history, there has never been an attack on free expression quite like Donald Trump’s.

Tracing the history of Americans' relationships with the silver screen, from film's earliest days to the cinematic creations of our own times.