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Most Everything You Learned About Thanksgiving Is Wrong

High school textbooks are particularly bad about stating absolutes because these materials “teach history” by giving students facts to memorize even when the details may be unclear.

Did Squanto meet Pocahontas in London?

by E. M. Rose

Circumstantial evidence suggests that they met when they were staying only a few hundred yards down the street from each other in the homes of men with interlocking business interests.

Thanksgiving: Early Colonists Ate Turkey... But Also Horses, Rats And Snakes, Archaeologists Say

Archaeologists at Historic Jamestowne are working to establish the diet of the colonists who once lived there.

Sources: McMaster Mocked Trump’s Intelligence at a Private Dinner

At dinner at a lobbying hotspot with a powerful tech CEO, the national security adviser said the president has the intelligence of a “kindergartner,” according to sources. Oracle and the Trump administration deny the comments.

The JFK assassination files lead back to Seattle

A University of Washington professor says that one of the doctors who worked on JFK’s body admitted that one shot was from the front not behind him. But that's not what the doctor told Gerald Posner.

Princeton investigates its connection to slavery at a two-day symposium

“Slavery became part of the DNA of Princeton. Princeton became renowned as a safe space for slaveholders.”

Twitter Is Full of Fake History Photos

Here's how to outsmart them.

Rare Documents Show a Palm Reader's Take on Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt

For whatever reason on Mar. 1, 1937, at the personal invitation of Eleanor Roosevelt, celebrity palm reader Nellie Simmons Meier of Indianapolis visited the White House and performed a reading on the President and his inner circle.

A Photo of Billy the Kid Bought for $10 at a Flea Market May Be Worth Millions

A similar find was valued at around $5 million in 2015.

The new Museum of the Bible confronts the challenge of presenting slavery and the Confederacy

“We have to acknowledge the proslavery argument was often drawn from the Bible,” said Seth Pollinger, the museum’s director of content.

Al Franken Could Face an Ethics Committee Investigation

Here's how that's gone for other Senators.

New Ulysses Grant presidential library at home in the South

Mississippi State University will launch the new library and exhibit space housing Grant's papers and artifacts on Nov. 30.

The Modern Invention of Thanksgiving

It might still come as a surprise to hear that Thanksgiving as we know it was deliberately invented in the nineteenth century.

It’s been 155 years since the Senate expelled a member. Will Roy Moore break the streak?

by Michael Todd Landis

The senator they expelled? A proslavery Democrat who recognized Jefferson Davis as the legitimate president of the Confederacy.

For Russians, 75 Years Later, Stalingrad Is a Battle to Remember

by Sergey Ponomarev

The 200 days of fighting along the Volga River came to be a defining event of World War II.

Why Is Roy Moore in Trouble?

Because the age of consent laws changed. Here’s the background.

The Provenance Problem

Why a cloud hangs over the new Museum of the Bible.

Did early Christians believe that Mary was a teenager?

It’s complicated.

Ken Burns’ ‘The Vietnam War’ Averaged 6.7M Viewers For PBS, Reached 34M

These ratings results mean The Vietnam War is the second-highest-rated Burns/Novick film of the past two decades, following The War in 2007.

Felony charges dropped against 7 accused of tearing down Durham Confederate statue

Durham County’s District Attorney Roger Echols said there was no evidence that those charged “physically participated in taking the statue down.”