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Half of Trump’s Voters Want a ‘White History Month’

They're also using the Bowling Green Massacre (which isn't real) to defend his Muslim ban.

Yale to change Calhoun College’s name

The decision followed the issuance of a report by a committee including two historians:  John Lewis Gaddis and Robert A. Lovett.

The man who declared the ‘end of history’ fears for democracy’s future

"Twenty five years ago, I didn't have a sense or a theory about how democracies can go backward. And I think they clearly can.” – Francis Fukuyama

Now Tanzania Seeks German Reparations Over Colonial Acts

This follows a move by Namibia for reparations.

Letters From Jacqueline Kennedy to the Man She Didn’t Marry

Newly discovered letters from Mrs. Kennedy to Lord Harlech, whose heart she broke, explain her decision to marry Aristotle Onassis.

Alleged mastermind tells Obama 9/11 was America’s fault

“It was not we who started the war against you in 9/11. It was you and your dictators in our land,” Khalid Sheik Mohammed, 51, writes in the 18-page letter to Obama.

Democrats try to shame GOP over White House Holocaust statement

Democrats took to the House floor Tuesday to blast the White House for not mentioning Jewish people in its statement recognizing International Holocaust Remembrance Day Jan. 27.

There’s a big spike in Google searches related to World War II

Unusually popular search terms include "Reichstag fire" and "Kristallnacht."

Steve Bannon Believes The Apocalypse Is Coming And War Is Inevitable

This is what he told historian David Kaiser in 2009.

The media claimed that Jeanette Epps will be the first African-American sent to the space station

Actually, that’s wrong.

9 Executive Orders That Changed American History

Over the years the executive order has become a more controversial tool.

CIA Covert Aid to Italy Averaged $5 Million Annually from Late 1940s to Early 1960s, Study Finds

CIA covert aid to Italy continued well after the agency’s involvement in the 1948 elections.

In divided America, history is weaponized to praise or condemn Trump

Many people are sharing stories about key moments and figures in American history to support or oppose one controversial White House executive order after another.

There's a long history of presidential untruths. Here's why Donald Trump is 'in a class by himself'

Presidents of all stripes and both major political parties have bent, massaged or shaded the truth, elided uncomfortable facts or otherwise misled the public — unwittingly or, sometimes, very purposefully.

If you thought Lady Gaga’s halftime show was apolitical, consider the origin of ‘This Land is Your Land’

Her rendition of “Born this way” wasn’t her only note of protest.

100 years and 16 presidents ago, a look at another anti-immigration act

In some ways, the 1917 law serves as a reminder of how different the times were back then.

When Tyrants Banned Religious Minorities

Looking back over the course of the past 2,000 years, it is remarkable how many of these violent and discriminatory measures were about profit and patriotism.

Mayor of Gdansk says rightwing politicians need to keep their hands off the new Museum of the Second World War

by Pawel Adamowicz

They seem to think it’s not patriotic enough.

Neil Gorsuch and the Search for the Supreme Court Mainstream

by Linda Greenhouse

The problem is what’s considered mainstream keeps changing.

Subway Riders Scrub Anti-Semitic Graffiti, as ‘Decent Human Beings’

The car’s windows and posters were covered in anti-Semitic graffiti. Messages like “Jews belong in the oven” and “destroy Israel, Heil Hitler,” had been written over subway maps, as shown by photographs taken on the train. Swastikas were drawn in black marker on the doors and windows.