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Trump and world leaders remember D-Day

Dozens of American veterans of D-Day were among other veterans and their families on a stage erected within the semicircular stone memorial at the Normandy American Cemetery.

American Women Fought for Suffrage for 70 Years. It Took WWI to Finally Achieve It

World War I helped women around the world get the vote.

Russia says D-Day memorials are part of a 'false' history of World War II meant to airbrush out the Soviet Union

Russia's foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, said the events commemorating the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of France were painting a "false" picture of who was responsible for winning World War II.

Frantz Fanon and the CIA Man

by Thomas Meaney

Based on an encounter with Fanon’s CIA handler, C. Oliver Iselin, Meaney presents the firsthand experience of a mid-level figure in the U.S. security state who participated in the national liberation movements in Africa. 

History on hold: University pauses the History Task Force work including Silent Sam

Interim Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz said the task force is currently inactive as he game-plans its future. 

In China, a Reuters Partner Blocks Articles on the Tiananmen Square Massacre

China has made efforts to quash public mentions of the day when tanks and troops moved into the Beijing plaza and crushed student-led protests.

Preserving the history of Yellowstone

It’s important to preserve the history of Native tribes in the Yellowstone region.

19th Amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote was passed 100 years ago today

Since the 19th Amendment's passage, women have helped inaugurate a new era of American politics.

Native Americans' D-Day stories come to light

For Charles Norman Shay, commemorating his people's sacrifice will never replace the friends he lost on D-Day.

How to Make Sense of the Shocking New MLK Documents

by David Greenberg

A new trove of FBI records has become yet another political weapon in our hyper-partisan age. That doesn’t mean we should ignore it.

David Garrow's Martin Luther King Biography Was a Classic. His Latest King Piece Is Causing a Furor.

David Garrow found F.B.I. documents alleging King stood by during a rape. But some scholars question whether to trust records created as part of a smear campaign.

National Security Archive Publishes Special Exhibit on the 30th anniversary of the Massacre at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square

Declassified Records Describe Attacks by Chinese Troops, Internal Official Debates, and U.S. Attempts to Keep U.S.-China Relations on Track.

He Served With D-Day’s Only African-American Combat Unit. His Widow Is Still Fighting for His Medal of Honor

Waverly Woodson died in 2005 but his widow, Joann Woodson, who turned 90 on May 26, has made it her mission to see that her husband’s heroism is acknowledged.

On Busing, Joe Biden, and the 'Pervasiveness of White Backlash to School Desegregation'

Jezebel spoke with Brett Gadsden, a history professor at Northwestern University and the author of Between North and South: Delaware, Desegregation, and the Myth of American Sectionalism about how to understand Biden’s position as part of white backlash to desegregation efforts, the ongoing resegregation of American life, and the reality that, as he put it, “racial segregation is the norm, not the exception.”

Queer Rage: Police Violence and the Stonewall Rebellion of 1969

by Marc Stein

Contrary to what many people believe, the Stonewall rebellion was not unprecedented and it was not the first time that LGBT people fought back.

Remembering the Stonewall Rebellion

by Marc Stein

Understand the background of the Stonewall Rebellion before its fiftieth anniversary. 

The Invention That Won World War II

by David Kindy

Patented in 1944, the Higgins boat gave the Allies the advantage in amphibious assaults that was vital to victory on D-Day. 

Canadian Inquiry Calls Killings of Indigenous Women Genocide

The widespread killings and disappearances of Indigenous women and girls in Canada are a “genocide” for which Canada itself is responsible, a national inquiry concluded in its final report on Monday.

Photos From the 1986 Chernobyl Disaster

Thirty-three years ago, on April 26, 1986, a series of explosions destroyed Chernobyl’s reactor No. 4, and several hundred staff and firefighters tackled a blaze that burned for 10 days and sent a plume of radiation around the world.

Women of color were cut out of the suffragist story. Historians say it’s time for a reckoning.

The story we remember this week — celebrating the 100th anniversary of Congress passing the suffrage amendment — ignores women of color and their contribution to the movement’s success.