The former Trump campaign chief and policy adviser was indicted for fraud related to a fundraising campaign that claimed to support construction of a wall on the US-Mexico border.
A Newsweek op ed argues that because Kamala Harris's parents were not US citizens at the time she was born in Oakland, CA, that she does not qualify as a "natural born" citizen. Historians respond.
The California Senator will be the first African American woman and the first person of south Asian heritage to appear on a major party presidential ticket. Historians discuss the impact of the selection.
After declaring that voting by mail would lead to fraud, Trump told an interviewer that he would block financial support to the Postal Service because he expected many Democrats to vote by mail.
The Attorney General faces scrutiny from Congress over his role in dealing with protest, directing the course of investigations on Trump's inner circle, and the integrity of the election.
Historians are parents and childcaregivers (and historians teach in primary and secondary schools!) too. Their thoughts on safety, policy, and more as the Omicron variant scrambles back-to-school for another semester.
The Arkansas Republican Senator introduced a bill to block any federal funds from being used to teach the (free) companion curriculum to the New York Times's 2019 special issue on the centrality of slavery to American history.
The Society for Historians of the Early American Republic's virtual plenary was the most exciting thing to happen on Academic Zoom since COVID. Read about the controversy.
Some historians are finding it ironic that university adminstrators are calling for faculty to prepare for teaching about "structural racism". They've been doing that work without necessarily being rewarded for it.
