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Redaction nation: US history brims with partial deletions

The released Mueller Report will likely be highly redacted. Here's the history behind those black marks. 

‘We Are Amplifying the Work’: France Starts Task Force on Art Looted Under Nazis

Once the art market was flooded with works that had belonged to those fleeing Vichy.

Why Good Friday was dangerous for Jews in the Middle Ages and how that changed

by Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski

Medieval Christians received the message on Good Friday that the Jews who lived in their midst were the enemies of Christians who killed their savior and needed to either convert to Christianity or face divine punishment.

The first African American major league baseball player isn’t who you think

As the country celebrates Jackie Robinson Day, let’s consider the career of Fleet Walker.

A history of great cathedrals that have been lost to fire and war

Notre Dame is one in a long line of cathedrals that have been ravaged by fire or war.

Hu Yaobang's Death 30 years ago was the spark for the Tiananmen Square protests

He is mourned — to this day — by those who hail him as an anti-corruption reformer.

Bonn Library Recovers More Than 600 Books Looted After World War II

The trove was flagged after a Belgian woman unwittingly tried to auction the stolen books.

Art Historian Caroline Bruzelius Discusses The History Of Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with art historian Caroline Bruzelius about the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, which caught on fire Monday.

The Notre-Dame Cathedral Was Nearly Destroyed By French Revolutionary Mobs

In the 1790s, anti-Christian forces all but tore down one of France’s most powerful symbols.

After Columbine, President Clinton Set A New Standard As 'Consoler In Chief' — And He’s Still Thinking About The Survivors

“There are certain things, if you're president, you need to say,” Clinton said. “There are certain other things you need to not say.”

Long considered a high honor, the valedictorian tradition faces an uncertain future

by John R. Thelin

Though the tradition goes back to colonial times, the validity of valedictorian honor is increasingly being called into question. 

F.B.I. Bars Some China Scholars From Visiting U.S. Over Spying Fears

The F.B.I. director, warned at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing last year that China presented “a whole-of-society threat on their end” that required a “whole-of-society response.”

Bolsonaro Takes Aim at Brazil’s History

Historical revisionism is emerging as a core obsession of the Bolsonaro administration and, according to the president’s critics, one of its most worrying.

The Campaign to Remove a Shocking Painting from the French Assembly

One panel of the painting is meant to commemorate the abolition of slavery in France, in 1794, but it perpetuates grotesque racist stereotypes.

Why women led the uprising in Sudan

by Nasredeen Abdulbari

Throughout Sudan’s history, women have played a central role in society.

Trump Administration Turns Over Massive Collection of Intelligence Records on Human Rights and Argentina

The 47,000 Pages of CIA, FBI, NSC, DOD and State Dept. Records Touted as “Largest” Government-to-Government Transfer of Declassified Documentation

Georgetown Students Vote to Add Fee for Slavery Reparations to Tuition

if approved by the university, it will be the first time an American university financially addresses its past as a slave-owning institution.

Finnish MP: 'We need historians to secure peace'

"History continues to play negative role in many conflicts", Tuomioja explained, suggesting that historians "can contribute substantially to conflict resolution".

Teaching the Holocaust in Germany as a Resurgent Far Right Questions It

As those who lived through it are dying off, and some people claim it never happened, what will happen to sites of remembrance?

A Professor Was Accused of Sexual Misconduct. Why is he Still on Campus?

Women speak up. A tenured professor is accused of sexual misconduct. Who does the University protect?