Current Events that Relate to History

The dominance of white for a woman's wedding attire is a relatively modern phenomenon.

Fifty years of journalism by and for “the rest of us.”

The American rebellion was, in many ways, a sideshow to a far greater imperial drama.

The path to the World Cup is accessible to only a narrow slice of American soccer players.

In 1782, American revolutionaries massacred 96 indigenous Moravian Christians. The victims had attempted to avoid taking sides in the war.

Is there more to the story that the New York Times is reporting about the scholarship of historian Kerri Greenidge? Something doesn't add up.

Every 50 years, the nation comes together to wrestle with the principles of its founding and what they mean for us in the present.