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A War Memorial Is Being Expanded. Some Say It Whitewashes History.

The Australian War Memorial, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars, will grow to commemorate recent conflicts, including war zones in which Australia still has troops.

A Centuries-Old Idea Could Revolutionize Climate Policy

The Green New Deal’s mastermind is a precocious New Yorker with big ambitions. Sound familiar?

Emergency powers helped Hitler’s rise. Germany has avoided them ever since.

by Jeffrey Herf

The lessons of the Weimar Republic.

‘Time for the Ku Klux Klan to night ride again’: An Alabama newspaper editor wants to bring back lynching

“If we could get the Klan to go up there and clean out D.C., we’d all been better off,” he told the paper, explaining, “We’ll get the hemp ropes out, loop them over a tall limb and hang all of them.”

Meet Annie Turnbo Malone, the hair care entrepreneur Trump shouted out in his Black History Month proclamation

She became a millionaire after giving Madam C.J. Walker her big break as a sales agent.

Barack Obama Shares His Recommended Reading For Black History Month

The books, letters and articles Obama shared were meant to provide “some essential context about the challenges that many people of color face every day,” he wrote on Facebook.

New Book Highlights Black farmers’ role in the struggle for civil rights

Monica M. White, assistant professor of environmental justice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, traces the history of black land-based social movements from the time of slavery to today’s urban gardens in Rust Belt cities.

How To Drink Like A President

The drinking habits of presidents past and present. 

Welcome to (possibly) the only town in America that wants a new Civil War memorial

The proposed memorial could be the only one in the nation to include both a president and his assassin.

Alabama omits Civil War leader Abraham Lincoln from Presidents Day holiday

The reason for the Alabama variation stems from old grudges birthed in the Civil War.

The plot to assassinate George Washington — and how it was foiled

If it weren’t for an overheard conversation in a New York jail, we might all be drinking British tea today.

The lengthy history of white politicians wearing blackface — and getting a pass

The history of blackface in American politics is wide and deep, frequently creating little more than a ripple of outrage for the mayors, state legislators and gubernatorial candidates caught on camera darkening their skin and caricaturing black people.

A Look at African-American History, Through the Numbers

In recognition of Black History Month, here are a few facts and figures about the African-American experience in the U.S.

A brief history of presidential lethargy

by Stacy A. Cordery

Before Theodore Roosevelt ascended to the presidency in 1901, the question of how hard a president toiled was of little concern to Americans.

NAACP’s first meeting was held in Canada but there were no Canadians there

by Warren Clarke and Nadine Powell

Given the strong geographical connection between Canada and the U.S., it is reasonable to question why Black Canadians are missing from the Niagara Movement’s historical narrative.

White Women and White Supremacy: Equal-Opportunity Evil

A new history reveals that for female slaveholders, the business of human exploitation was just as profitable—and brutal—as it was for men.

New Book Sheds New Light on the Starr Investigation

by Sean Wilentz

Twenty years after Kenneth Starr delivered to Congress his report recommending the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, the former independent counsel has delivered a second report, in the form of a memoir, condemning Clinton all over again. 

The History of Poisoning the Well

From ancient Mesopotamia to modern-day Iraq, the threat to a region’s water supply is the cruelest cut of all  

The Secret History of Women in Coding

Computer programming once had much better gender balance than it does today. What went wrong?

The ‘real’ St. Valentine was no patron of love

by Lisa Bitel

Many scholars have deconstructed Valentine and his day in books, articles and blog postings. Some suggest that the modern holiday is a Christian cover-up of the more ancient Roman celebration of Lupercalia in mid-February.