Breaking News

Congress Finally Passes FY 2018 Federal Budget

by Lee White

Major Victory: Across the board, history, archival and education programs were either level funded or received small increases.

These Are the Presidents Who Spoke Multiple Languages (and How Donald Trump Compares)

1. John Adams - Languages learned: Latin, Greek, and French

More than 150 Years Later, Canada Exonerates Six Indigenous Chiefs Hanged in 1864

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau affirmed that the chiefs had acted in ‘war, not murder’ when they attacked white settlers who had encroached on their land.

Faced With Drought, the Pharaohs Tried (and Failed) to Adapt

Ancient Egyptian leaders increased their empire’s grain production and crossbred cattle for resilience in an early effort to ward off climate disaster, a study shows.

Why People Rioted After Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Assassination

“People were out of control with anger and sadness and frustration.”

Faculty group presses University of Georgia on its slavery history

When faculty and administrators drive in to their jobs at Baldwin Hall, they’re driving over the graves of slaves or former slaves.

Duke University holds symposium on slavery

Panelists considered what monuments do and don’t say about our nation’s troubled racial history.

Who killed Martin Luther King Jr.?

His family believes James Earl Ray was framed.

First it was Confederate monuments. Now statues offensive to Native Americans are poised to topple across the U.S.

No other city has taken down a monument to a president for his misdeeds, but Arcata is poised to do just that with a statue of William McKinley.

Denmark Gets First Public Statue of a Black Woman, a ‘Rebel Queen’

In Denmark, where most of the public statues represent white men, two artists on Saturday unveiled the striking statue in tribute to a 19th-century rebel queen who had led a fiery revolt against Danish colonial rule in the Caribbean.

New Asian-American, Brazilian apostles make Mormon history

The Mormon church made history and injected diversity into a top leadership panel on Saturday by selecting the first-ever Latin-American apostle and the first-ever apostle of Asian ancestry.

The oldest footprints in North America are right where native historians said they should be

An archaeological dig has unearthed physical evidence of ancient human presence: 29 footprints pressed into the shoreline of Calvert Island, part of the First Nations’ traditional territory.

50 years later, echoes of 1968 resonate in US

1968 was a year so eventful that it's become known as "The Year That Changed America."

Can technology unravel the secrets sealed by Mt. Vesuvius 2,000 years ago?

Scholars believe the damaged scrolls of Herculaneum could contain lost works of Greek philosophy, Roman poetry, or early Christian writings.

Museum Appoints White Woman As African Art Curator, Sparks Outrage

Kristen Windmuller-Luna is slated to take over managing the museum's African art collection in April.

The Most Controversial Census Changes in American History

The census, a Constitutionally-mandated survey of the U.S. population taken every decade since 1790, has a long history of being used as a political tool.

Was the NRA Founded to Protect Black People from the Ku Klux Klan?

Revisionist accounts of the origin of the National Rifle Association say it was formed to help freed slaves defend themselves against racist attacks after the Civil War.

Charleston Needs That African American Museum. And Now.

For millions of African-Americans today, the site is “ground zero,” as the Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has put it, for “blackness, black culture, the African experience, the African-American experience, slavery — however you want to slice it.”

A museum relegated an ‘empty’ coffin to a side room for decades. Inside was a 2,500-year-old mummy.

The coffin, from the 6th century B.C., had been purchased by Sir Charles Nicholson from an Egyptian antiquities market in 1857 or 1858.

Nearly 1 in 5 say they would not accept Jews as fellow citizens in Poland

Polish attitudes toward Jews are typical of the public’s views in many of the 17 other countries Pew Research Center surveyed in Central and Eastern Europe.