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Foreign interference in US elections dates back decades

by Bradley W. Hart

Two campaigns, in 1940 and 1960, featured bold attempts by hostile foreign powers to put their preferred candidates in the Oval Office.

Colorado lawmaker Lori Saine claims blacks, whites were lynched in “nearly equal numbers” for being Republican following Reconstruction

According to the NAACP’s history of lynchings, nearly 73 percent of the 4,800 people lynched from 1882 until 1968 were black.

On MLK Day, descendants of Lee, Stonewall Jackson urge Va. to halt Confederate tributes

Descendants of two Confederate generals appeared in the Virginia Senate on Monday to show their support for Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, who days earlier sat out a Republican senator’s ode to Robert E. Lee.

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, remembering the women civil rights leaders left out of spotlight

“Women were at the forefront of the civil rights struggle, but their individual stories were rarely heard."

As STEM majors soar at UW, interest in humanities shrinks — a potentially costly loss

The number of students studying the humanities at the University of Washington is shrinking, with some majors down as much as 50 percent in a decade. It's having a financial impact, and also affecting the breadth of the university's expertise.

Fate of Confederate Monuments Is Stalled by Competing Legal Battles

Almost 154 years after the end of the Civil War, the country is still quarreling — in state capitols and courtrooms, on college campuses and around town squares — over how, or whether, to commemorate the side that lost.

The Striking Contradictions of Richard Nixon's Inauguration 50 Years Ago, as Observed by Hunter S. Thompson

It had been a year of assassinations and police riots and defeats that had led, for Hunter Thompson, to the most unthinkable outcome of all: Richard Nixon’s victory march to the White House lawn. 

Ahead of its 100th anniversary, revisiting the Seattle General Strike and the city’s long legacy of organized labor

The Seattle General Strike lasted six days, with not a single shot fired nor a single striker arrested.

'I Gave Up Hope': As Girls, They Were Jailed In Squalor For Protesting Segregation

The day Martin Luther King Jr. gave his landmark "I Have a Dream" speech in August 1963, a lesser known moment in civil rights history was unfolding in southern Georgia.

Historians Explain How The Women's March Builds On More Than 100 Years Of Resistance

Three past protests in particular opened up opportunities for movements like the Women's March to take place: the Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913, the Silent Parade of 1917, and the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

Why Reagan's 'Star Wars' Defense Plan Remained Science Fiction

Despite criticisms from politicians, many scientists and others that the SDI was impractical, expensive and dangerous, the concept was developed during a frightening era.

4,141 Latvians Were Just Outed as K.G.B. Informants

For many Latvians. the appearance of their names, code names and dates of recruitment in a recently released K.G.B. archive has come as a traumatic surprise.

Army Releases a Critical History of the War in Iraq

The history, which totals more than 1,300 pages, now is posted on the U.S. Army War College website, along with more than 1,000 declassified documents that were used in the research.

Is a Planned Monument to Women’s Rights Racist?

What is forward-moving about reiterating an error in an effort to correct for it?

Robert J. Brown Worked With Both MLK and Nixon. Here’s What He Says Went on Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement

The civil rights power broker talks about his new memoir and working with Martin Luther King Jr. and Richard Nixon.

The Nazi-Fighting Winter Soldiers Who Taught America to Ski

Many of America’s ski resorts were started by soldiers who skied during World War II — a group that played a key role in the sport’s popularity in the United States.

Five women’s marches throughout history that triggered political change

by Rachel Vogelstein and Rebecca Turkington

Throughout history, women’s movements around the world have translated mass collective action into political, social and economic change.

Will the State of the Union be postponed? That hasn’t happened since the Challenger disaster.

Postponing a State of the Union speech is not unprecedented.

The Surprisingly Complex Link Between Prohibition and Women’s Rights

One of Prohibition's legacies is how, a century before the MeToo movement, it succeeded in making issues that women cared about part of the national conversation.

Snopes: Did Clifford Walker Say at a 1924 KKK Rally That He Would Build a ‘Wall of Steel’ Against Immigrants?

The quote spread across the Internet, stripped of its context and in meme form, prompting some readers to query whether the quote and its description were real.