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Who Owns History? Connecticut Woman Sues Harvard for Family Photos

Featuring historian and professor from Georgetown University, Marcia Chatelain, about how American universities are confronting their legacies of slavery. 

In 1933, two rebellious women bought a home in Virginia’s woods. Then the CIA moved in.

In the late 1950s, the CIA took over the land in Langley, Va., to build a headquarters that could accommodate its fast-growing operations. 

Historic Iwo Jima footage shows individual Marines amid the larger battle

by Greg Wilsbacher

When most Americans think of the World War II battle for Iwo Jima – if they think of it at all, 75 years later – they think of one image: Marines raising the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi, the island’s highest point.

How Dresden Looked After a World War II Firestorm 75 Years Ago

Mourning all of the war’s victims has been central to Germany’s remembrance efforts since reunification in 1990.

Socialists were winning U.S. elections long before Bernie Sanders and AOC

The “Pledge of Allegiance” was written by a Christian socialist in 1892. Eugene V. Debs ran for president on a socialist ticket five times; in 1912, he got nearly a million votes.

On the 100th anniversary of the Negro Leagues, a look back at what was lost

by Rob Ruck

After World War II, Jackie Robinson hurdled baseball’s racial divide. But while integration – baseball’s great experiment – was a resounding success on the field, at the gates and in changing racial attitudes, Negro League teams soon lost all of their stars and struggled to retain fans. 

America’s postwar fling with romance comics

by Michael C. Weisenburg

Grounded in artistic and narrative realism, romance comics were remarkably different from their superhero and sci-fi peers. While the post-war popularity of romance comics only lasted a few years, these love stories ended up actually having a strong influence on other genres.

The House just passed a bill to create a women’s history museum. Only one congresswoman voted against it.

The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to approve the creation of a national women’s history museum as part of the Smithsonian Institution’s network of museums in Washington.

For hundreds of years, enslaved people were bought and sold in America. Today most of the sites of this trade are forgotten.

by Anne C. Bailey and Dannielle Bowman

A powerful photoessay that is the latest article from the 1619 Project. 

Bernie Sanders’ New Hampshire Victory Is a Big Deal for Socialism in America. Here's What to Know About the History of the Idea

Sanders’ success in both Iowa and New Hampshire may signal that a version of American socialism is again on the rise.

Poland’s forgotten civil strife and the struggle for Jewish statehood

by Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez

Israel and the Russian-Polish War of Narratives: How the contest for control of post-WWII Poland intersected with the struggle for Jewish statehood as two early arenas of the Cold War.

2 New Books Examine the the History of Black Travel

The New York Times reviews OVERGROUND RAILROAD: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America by Candacy Taylor and DRIVING WHILE BLACK: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights by Gretchen Sorin.

A stolen slave auction plaque shook Charlottesville. But the confession was the real shock.

“This is called reparations, as far as I’m concerned,” he said when asked if he was willing to go to jail.

The american schoolboy who collected stamps in 1856

by Ken Lawrence

Learning about the exceptional life and tragic death of  David T. Latimer, the brave lad who built America’s oldest surviving stamp collection.

The history of ‘coming out,’ from secret gay code to popular political protest

by Abigail C. Saguy

In my new book, “Come Out, Come Out, Whoever You Are,” I explore the history of this term, from the earliest days of the gay rights movement, to today, when it has been adopted by other movements.

In Amazon’s Bookstore, No Second Chances for the Third Reich

The retailer once said it would sell “the good, the bad and the ugly.” Now it has banished objectionable volumes — and agreed to erasing the swastikas from a photo book about a Nazi takeover.

The Democrat who cried (maybe) in New Hampshire and lost the presidential nomination

The “Canuck letter” was part of the dirty-tricks campaign waged by Nixon’s Committee to Re-Elect the President and helped turn the 1972 race for the Democratic nomination upside down.

These 19 black women fought for voting rights

by Nsenga K. Burton

Featuring historians Jennifer D. Williams, Michelle Duster

Carter G. Woodson and the History of Black History Month

Since Woodson's death in 1950, the organization that he founded, the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History -- now called the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) -- has fought to keep his legacy alive.

The MLK Graphic Novel That Inspired Generations of Civil Rights Activists

The comic book that helped spark a generation of young civil rights protestors did not feature superheroes, but a 42-year-old seamstress and a 26-year-old Baptist pastor.