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A 130,000-Year-Old Mastodon Threatens to Upend Human History

After years of debate over the dating technology used on a mastodon found in San Diego, a group of researchers now believes that they can date it and the human tools to 130,000 years ago—more than 100,000 years earlier than the earliest humans are supposed to have made it to North America.

Trump just promised the biggest tax cut in history

Here’s how big it would have to be.

An African Diaspora group at Columbia University draped a KKK hood over Thomas Jefferson

by Mobilized African Diaspora (MAD)

The group – Mobilized African Diaspora (MAD) – claims Jefferson posed the same threat to Africans as the KKK subsequently did.

Documents show how CIA connived with Chilean publisher to overthrow Allende

Declassified CIA and White House documents posted today by the National Security Archive show conclusively what media mogul Agustin Edwards repeatedly denied – that he and his newspaper, El Mercurio, became a critical part of U.S. plans to foment a military coup against President Allende.

Is Trump right that he's signed more executive orders than FDR in his first 100 days?

The answer is no. 

500 Years After Expulsion, Sicily’s Jews Reclaim a Lost History

More than 500 years after Sicily’s Jews were banished from this island in 1492, a nascent Jewish community is planting fresh roots in the Sicilian capital, reclaiming a lost, often painful, history, this time with the aid of the local diocese.

Pollution Hurts Some People More Than Others. That’s Been True for Centuries.

Concerns regarding a lack of adequate sanitation to combat pollution date back to the mid-19th century, yet it wasn’t until the late 20th century that environmental protection emerged as a nationwide grassroots effort to address what activists have identified as environmental racism.

Do U.S. Strikes Send a ‘Message’ to Rivals? There’s No Evidence

The notion that military action in one part of the world will deter adversaries in all others, long common in stump speeches and on cable news chatter, has at times profoundly influenced American foreign policy. There is only one problem: Repeated investigation has found that this notion is baseless.

Why President Trump is probably right about the ‘ridiculous standard’ of the first 100 days

In his third radio address to the people, Franklin D. Roosevelt talked about the achievements of his young presidency — the first 100 days “devoted to the starting of the wheels of the New Deal.” Since then, the idea of the “first 100 days” has taken on a life of its own.

Its location a mystery for centuries, huge Indian city is found in Kansas

Etzanoa is the second-biggest settlement of Native Americans found in the United States.

Second parchment manuscript copy of Declaration of Independence found — in England

The only other parchment copy is maintained by the National Archives in Washington, D.C.

Historians say the March for Science is ‘pretty unprecedented’

“The march is pretty unprecedented in terms of the scale and breadth of the scientific community that’s involved, and it does recall Physicians for Social Responsibility and various scientific groups against nuclear war in the Reagan era, that’s I think the most recent precedent.” 

Patterns Of Death In The South Still Show The Outlines Of Slavery

There’s a map, made more than 150 years ago using 1860 census data, that pops up periodically on the internet on which, the counties of the Southern U.S. are shaded to reflect the percentage of inhabitants who were enslaved at the time. The shading closely matches visualizations of many modern-day data sets.

New Orleans begins controversial removal of Confederate monuments

The controversial removal was the first of four scheduled relocations of Confederate memorials in the city, despite weeks of opposition from pro-monument groups and threats against workers.

Netanyahu on Holocaust: 'Hypocrisy is screaming to the sky'

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking at Jerusalem's Yad Vashem memorial, warned that anti-Semitism and apathy to cruelty remain a critical global problem.

Berlin's street names provoke debate over forgotten colonial history

Historians want to make people aware of the harsh colonial legacy in Africa that their streets are named after.

'World's first newspaper published in Korea in 1557'

Until now, the oldest was believed to be German daily Einkommende Zeitungen, whose first issue dates to 1660.

Trump’s claim that ‘no administration has accomplished more in the first 90 days’

The first 100 days of a presidency mark a rather artificial milestone, but one by which all presidents have been measured since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s whirlwind of action when he took office in the midst of the Great Depression.

Trump parroted Chinese version of history

Trump’s inartful retelling of Sino-Korean history sparked widespread outrage among Koreans, who are particularly sensitive to the U.S. president’s rhetoric amid heightened tensions between North and South Korea.

Museum of the American Revolution opens: 'It's high time we had a museum such as this'

The museum not only tells the story of the war, but of the events that led up to and followed it. It attempts to engage visitors, making them question what they would do in the shoes of those in the past.