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In Spain’s ‘Stolen-Babies’ Scandal, Doctor Escapes Punishment

Spanish dictator Francisco Franco’s regime removed infants from families that opposed him.

The Surprising Role of Circus Performers in the Fight for Women's Suffrage

One major element turning the tide toward suffrage was the increasing presence of women in the workforce.

‘Moral dry-rot’: The only Supreme Court justice who divided the Senate more than Kavanaugh

Before Brett M. Kavanaugh, there was Stanley Matthews, whose confirmation was so fraught and divisive that it took a second nomination to cement his place on the Supreme Court.

NYT calls for courts to release secret grand jury records in 1946 Georgia lynching

by NYT Editorial Board

It was the last mass lynching in US history.

Did the Trump Family Historian Drop a Dime to the New York Times?

A first cousin of the president kept a trove of financial records that appears to have provided evidence for a major investigation of the Trump family business.

Was the Kavanaugh Hearing the Worst Supreme Court Fight? You Be the Judge

In the centuries since the court was established, about 16 percent of candidates submitted to the Senate never donned the coveted black robe — whether by outright rejection, withdrawal or deferring of the nomination.

Churchill's 'black dog' is a myth and he never suffered depression, says historian

Andrew Roberts says the phrase “black dog” had a different meaning at the beginning of the 20th century and did not refer to mental health.

Brett Kavanaugh's Confirmation Vote Is The Most Partisan In Modern History

The 50-48 tally continues a trend in which confirmations have devolved into strict party-line votes.

30 years ago Pinochet proposed using violence to change the outcome of a plebiscite on his dictatorship

Officials refused to implement his plan. He lost and the dictatorship ended. 

Columbus believed he would find ‘blemmyes’ and ‘sciapods’ – not people – in the New World

by Peter C. Mancall

Centuries of conventional wisdom had conditioned him to believe that bizarre beasts and 'monstrous men' would be awaiting him.

The Troubling History of the Fight to Honor Leif Erikson—Not Columbus—as the Man Who 'Discovered America'

Leif Erikson Day is a celebration of the Viking explorer credited with reaching the continent around the year 1000, nearly 500 years before Columbus did.

The Nazi Downstairs: A Jewish Woman’s Tale of Hiding in Her Home

A search for a lost masterpiece uncovered a woman’s harrowing account of escaping deportation, and possibly death, while spying on a Nazi at close range.

50 Years Later, Troubles Still Cast ‘Huge Shadow’ Over Northern Ireland

Decades later, the Troubles “are so burned into our lives that they are part of our DNA,” said Monica McWilliams, a former civil rights marcher, peace activist and feminist leader.

San Francisco Japanese sister-city cuts its ties over comfort women statue

The mayor of Osaka objects to the statue, which memorializes the Korean women exploited by Japanese soldiers in the thirties and forties.

San Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit agency is attacked for running Holocaust denier’s ads

by Rabbi Abraham Cooper and Morey Schapira

BART claims the group has a First Amendment right to buy advertising.

Poll: 1 in 3 Americans can pass citizenship test

57 percent did not know how many Justices sit on the Supreme Court.

Kavanaugh Proceedings Drive a Senate Once Governed by Decorum Into Rancor

Even during the debates over civil rights in the sixties senators on opposite sides of the issue remained civil. 

Journalist Seeks Grand Jury Transcripts in Notorious 1946 Georgia Lynching

Anthony Pitch, author of a 2016 book on the lynching, has been fighting for the transcripts for years. The case heads to court this week.

How the FBI’s flawed investigation of Clarence Thomas became a model for Kavanaugh’s

And why it shouldn't.  For one thing, the FBI never talked to — or even knew to look for — four potential witnesses who had knowledge of Anita Hill’s complaints about Thomas.

'Cyber-racism': UK Black History Month website attacked

The UK Black History Month website has been brought down by hackers for a second time in 24 hours in what its editors believe to be a case of “cyber-racism.”