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After 100 years, Mussolini’s fascist party is a reminder of the fragility of freedom

by Richard Gunderman

People all over the world need to remember that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

FDR’s court-packing scheme was a ‘humiliating’ defeat

Yet the idea has been revived by some of the liberals seeking the presidency.

Beyond blackface: How college yearbooks captured protest and change

by John R. Thelin

College yearbook editors in the 1960s juxtaposed pictures of traditional campus activities, such as Greek Life, alongside images of protests and marches.

What Historians Are Saying About the College Admissions Scandal

Historians respond to Operation Varsity Blues. 

Campaigns without end: Today’s presidential marathons took root in 1968

“These are no longer job interviews. They’re long courtships where people get to know the candidates as if they were dating.”

‘Grand inquisitors of the realm’: How Congress got its power to investigate and subpoena

As House Democrats probe the Trump administration, a look back at a Founding Father who wanted his record examined.

Underpaid, but Employed: How the Great Depression Affected Working Women

More women entered the work force during the economically tough era, but the jobs they took were relegated as "women's work" and poorly paid.

What lessons can the clergy sex abuse crisis draw from a 4th-century church schism?

by Cavan W. Concannon

Known as the Donatist controversy, it caused a schism that lasted for centuries and offers a parallel for thinking about the impact of these crises on contemporary Christian communities today.

Archaeologists Find Trove Of Maya Artifacts Dating Back 1,000 Years

This collection may help researchers in their quest to learn more information about the rise and fall of the ancient Maya civilization.

Trump campaign adviser dismisses White House diversity question, asks about black people in Lincoln admin

"Is Abraham Lincoln a racist because he didn't have a black person in his West Wing?," asked Trump 2020 campaign adviser Katrina Pierson.

The Holocaust Prisoners Who Risked Their Lives to Sneak Evidence from Concentration Camps

A new exhibition at London's Wiener Library tells the story of the men and women who enlightened the world as to what was happening in the extermination camps.

How the Daughters and Granddaughters of Former Slaves Secured Voting Rights for All

by Martha S. Jones

Theirs was a unique brand of politics crafted at the crossroads of racism and sexism.   

International Women's Day went from bloody revolution to corporate breakfasts

The radical history behind International Women's Day. 

26 Labor Heroines You Should Know for Women's History Month

And how they shaped American and labor history. 

The Unsung Suffragist Who Fought for Women to Keep Their Maiden Names

Before the 1970s, women couldn’t get their paychecks, passports, driver’s licenses or bank accounts, or even vote, using their birth surnames. 

Historians Nathan Connolly and Ed Ayers Give A History Of "Socialism" As A Scare Tactic In American Politics

“Before it really became a dirty word, it became a very popular word."

Long before #MeToo, women in many parts of the world organized successful campaigns against sexual violence

by Alka Kurian

Women in countries such as India, Pakistan and others have long organized successful campaigns against sexual harassment.

The New Deal Wasn’t What You Think

by Louis Hyman

If we are going to fund a Green New Deal, we need to acknowledge how the original actually worked.

Exodus: Black people fled the South in droves more than a century ago, seeking true freedom

Slavery and the Great Migration are but two of the 13 mass movements of Black people that changed the nation, according to Schomburg Center Historians. 

The Women Whose Secret Work Helped Win World War II

The first-hand stories of these trail-blazing women.