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Maryland Could Spring Forward Permanently with Daylight Saving Time Bill

“We have a whole host of reasons on why we do this daylight savings, but they all seem antiquated in theories,” said Del. Brian Crosby, D-St. Mary’s, sponsor of House Bill 1610. “When you start breaking down the data of why to not do it, that far outweighs why we do do it.”

Bellevue College President, Vice President Out after Mural on Japanese American Incarceration was Altered

The deletion was condemned by the Seattle chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League, which called the act “tantamount to agreement with the hate speech of decades past.”

The Historic LGBTQ Trump Appointment that got Overshadowed

by James Kirchick

While Trump’s appointment of Grenell can be criticized on other grounds, the appointment of an openly gay man to head an institution once closed to gays and lesbians is a milestone.

How Socialist is Bernie Sanders?

The self-proclaimed democratic socialist Bernie Sanders’s rise in a time of political upheaval, the historian Michael Kazin argues, is less shocking than people think.

The Cruel Story Behind The 'Reverse Freedom Rides'

This episode of the NPR podcast "Code Switch" discusses the forgotten history of a segregationist scheme.

Trump is Ignoring the Lessons of 1918 Flu Pandemic that Killed Millions, Historian Says

“I think the No. 1 lesson that came out of the experience is that if you want to prevent panic, you tell the truth.”

Following Dorothea Lange's Notebooks

by Tess Taylor

As I visited encampments, internment centers and small agricultural towns, I used Ms. Lange’s images and words as a lens to help refract the messy complexity of California’s present. 

Can Big Data Clarify the Second Amendment?

by James C. Phillips and Josh Blackman

Even with the help of powerful 21st-century linguistic databases, the phrase “keep and bear arms” remains debatable.

Joyce Ladner Used Her Stories to Raise Awareness of the Civil Rights Movement. Now, She’s Telling Them in a New Way

“I hope the younger students understand they can do something about conditions they don’t think should exist,” Ladner says. “There’s an activist in all of us if you tap into it.”

Joe Biden is making a Supreme Court promise. Ronald Reagan did, too.

Though some critics may dismiss it as pandering, a promise like this has a proven track record. Ronald Reagan vowed to put a woman on the Supreme Court; it was a key part of his campaign for president in 1980.

Land Deed for Pioneering School Sheds Light on an Early American Anti-Slavery Effort

Sotheby’s announced Wednesday that it is auctioning off a 1794 land deed for the first location of the African Free School in lower Manhattan, one of the first educational institutions founded to prepare free people of color and the children of enslaved people for life after slavery.

Could Never Bernie Make It a Contested Convention? Here's 4 Contested Conventions in Presidential Election History

Having a single candidate by the time of a party's convention has been a key stepping stone for victory. But it hasn't always worked out that way.

House Passes Anti-Lynching Bill After 120 Years of Failure

Since 1900, Congress has repeatedly failed to pass a bill making lynching a federal crime. Now the legislation could be on its way to the Oval Office.

A New Film Series Teases Out the Complex History of Black Heroines On Screen

The series, entitled It's All in Me: Black Heroines, runs through March 5 at MoMA.

Pathologizing Politics: Eugenics and Political Discourse in the Modern United States

by Evan P. Sullivan

Americans enjoy near unity in resorting to eugenic terms for political purposes. 

How Churchill Brought Britain Back From the Brink: Erik Larson's Book Reviewed in NY Times

A review of THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz.

National Register of Historic Places Often Ignores Slavery's Significance on American South

The register’s written entries on the plantations tend to say almost nothing about the enslaved people.

On the Trail of America’s First Women to Vote

From 1776 to 1807, women in New Jersey had equal voting rights. Newly surfaced documents illuminate how that happened — and the origins of the messy, imperfect democracy we have today.

President Trump's Take on Parasite Echoes an Old Debate Over the Role of Non-American Films at the Oscars

Parasite was in fact the first foreign-language film to win Best Picture, but Hamlet, starring Laurence Olivier, was the first non-American film to win Best Picture, in 1949.

The ancient Greeks had alternative facts too – they were just more chill about it

by Joel Christensen

Persuading others – or even yourself – what is true is not a challenge unique to the modern era. Even the ancient Greeks had to confront different realities.