Current Events that Relate to History

The Court’s new ruling revives religion in public life—but is it restoring tradition, or reshaping the boundary between church and state?

A nation that helped shape modern war reporting is now treated as peripheral.

His work with gang members in Chicago shows how much he valued the part played by young people in the Black freedom struggle.

Thoreau's ideas and work as an abolitionist, antiwar dissident, and ecological thinker still challenge a country failing its own revolutionary ideals.

Essentializing the Delta-Chicago connection used to be a white-boy game.

A collection of resources exploring the evolving meanings of American citizenship and how they have been applied -- or denied -- to different groups of Americans.