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What Trump and Toxic Cops Have in Common

It’s us versus them.

Robert J. Sawyer Tackles the Atomic Bomb with Alternate-History Novel, “The Oppenheimer Alternative”

Robert J. Sawyer's novel is built around the ethical and moral ramifications of dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which the author hopes will receive deep reflection on their 75th anniversaries.

Robert E. Lee Statue and Daughters of Confederacy Building Attacked by Richmond Protesters

Confederate monuments across the South were vandalized during George Floyd demonstrations.

Chicago 1968: Blood Outside the Arena (Reprinted 8/28/1968)

The Village Voice reprints its coverage of the unrest at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. 

Law Professor Criticized After Reading Racial Slur In Class

A Stanford Law School (SLS) professor is facing criticism from numerous student groups and instructors after saying the N-word in a class while quoting from historical source material. 

Many Holocaust Survivors Are Struggling Amid the Pandemic. Here’s How Virtual Gatherings Are Helping

Many survivors are finding that these virtual gatherings are meeting an important need — both for their own mental health, and for a world that needs to hear their perspective.

Remaking Ethnic Studies

Recognizing a rift between the words written on a chalkboard and the society that lies outside the classroom door, students are increasingly pushing for a course of study that allows them to learn about traditionally underrepresented figures and reckon with concepts of oppression and justice.

Activists Investigate The History Of Relationships Of MPD With African Americans

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Tony Williams, a contributor to MPD150, who published an investigation into the conduct of the Minneapolis Police Department throughout its 150-year history.

Role-Playing Games are Breathing New Life into the History Classroom

Immersive role-playing games offer an alternative method to engaging students with history and with the research, writing and interpretive skills of historians. 

Dallas Awarded $50,000 to Preserve Civil Rights History

"This funding from our country’s National Park Service will certainly jump start efforts to educate our community about the Hall of Negro Life, and it is a direct recommendation of the Task Force that examined how we tell our history," said Council Member Adam Bazaldua.

'The Saddest, Bitterest Thing of All.’ From the Great Depression to Today, a Long History of Food Destruction in the Face of Hunger

As advocates mark World Hunger Day on May 28, experts and officials around the world are hoping they can avoid adding mass hunger to the list of parallels many have seen between the 1930s and today.

Should the U.S. Favor Public Health or the Economy? History Shows they’re Inseparable

by Robert I. Field

Historical evidence suggests that public health infrastructure, which is lacking for COVID, is key to stable and secure recovery from a pandemic.

All the History I Learned in my Youth Came from the American Girl Doll Books

Learning about history can come from unexpected places. The information booklets sold with the author's dolls may have drawn on more historians' expertise than her school textbooks did. 

Future Historians Will Rely on Wikipedia’s COVID-19 Coverage

Because Wikipedia archives each version of articles as they are edited, it offers a rich resource for tracking how knowledge of a subject changes. 

The Unluckiest Generation In U.S. History

Economic data suggest that Millennials aren't just complaining. Their early years on the job market have been affected by the Great Recession and COVID and seen less growth than any other generation.

Larry Kramer, Author and Outspoken AIDS Activist, Dies at 84

Even some of the officials Mr. Kramer accused of “murder” and “genocide” recognized that his outbursts were part of a strategy to shock the country into dealing with AIDS as a public-health emergency.

Poor Neighborhoods Are Only Getting Poorer

What new research shows is that number of poor neighborhoods in metropolitan areas has actually doubled from 1980 — and most existing low-income areas only fell deeper into poverty.

Abraham Lincoln and the Shavuot Controversy of 1865

The conflict between a national day of mourning declared for Abraham Lincoln in 1865 and the Jewish holiday commemorating God's revelation of the law to Moses (during which mourning is forbidden) reflects conflicting ideas of how Jews should balance observance and participation in civic life.

Reparations – Has the Time Finally Come?

ACLU Senior Policy Analyst Nkechi Taifa discusses the history of the movement for African American reparations and how it has moved from the radical fringe to mainstream debate.

William Small, Who Made CBS Washington Bureau a TV News Powerhouse, Dies at 93

William Small built CBS News into a top journalistic organization that covered the biggest stories of the 1960s and 1970s.