Current Events that Relate to History

William Billings has been largely forgotten, except among music historians.

What history can teach us about where the anti-imperialist left should go now.

A new book makes the case for engaging with the anniversary on your own terms and taking your own meaning from it.

The lies repeated to this day about Rustin’s position on the war help conveniently dismiss one of the most trenchant critics of the New Left.

The debate over Paine's legacy today is a proxy for a much larger debate over whose vision gets to govern.

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