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October Revolution: Russia's Communists Warn of Riots If Lenin Is Buried, Kadyrov Demands Apology

For almost a century, the revolutionary’s body has laid embalmed in a mausoleum on Moscow’s Red Square, splitting opinion from the outset.

Evolution of Celebrating Native Americans

This November, we celebrate Native Americans by exploring the history of Native American Heritage Month, recognizing the changes this holiday endured, and highlighting six ways to celebrate.

Foreign Travel Was Once Taboo for American Presidents

During the 1800s, the idea of a U.S. president making even one or two international visits—let alone over 50—was unheard of.

Princeton Digs Deep Into Its Fraught Racial History

The Princeton and Slavery Project, officially unveiled on Monday, stands out for the depth of its research.

JFK files say rumors of CIA link to Oswald ‘unfounded’

A 1975 CIA memo says a thorough search of agency records in and outside the United States was conducted to determine whether Oswald had been used by the agency or connected with it in "any conceivable way." The memo said the search came up empty.

Both Bush Presidents Worry Trump Is Blowing Up the G.O.P.

A new book on the two Bushes provides a glance at their apprehension over Mr. Trump’s rise to power and what it means for the country.

For Families of Japanese Abducted by North Korea, Trump Visit Brings Spotlight

President Trump plans to meet with the family of one of at least 17 people abducted by North Korea in the 1970s and '80s.

C.I.A. Documents Describe Lee Harvey Oswald’s Visit to Mexico

Taken in total, a new release of JFK files paint a picture of an American intelligence establishment fixated on the theory that the assassination was part of a larger Cuban or Soviet plot to destabilize and weaken the United States.

Is It Possible That the Eisenhower Memorial Will Finally Get Built?

After more than a decade and a half of planning and controversy, work began on the long-stalled, $150 million memorial to Dwight D. Eisenhower with a groundbreaking at the four-acre site in Washington DC.

Trump's tax cut won't be the biggest in U.S. history

Trump would be on target if he were talking only about corporate taxes, but he has included other taxes in his boast.

The ‘Diversity’ Green Card Lottery Was Originally for White Immigrants

Despite its name, the lottery wasn’t originally intended to promote cultural and racial diversity in the U.S. Back when Congress introduced it in 1986, the goal was to ease immigration for Irish and Italian immigrants.

Cosmic Rays Reveal Mysterious Chamber Inside the Great Pyramid

Archaeologists, using a sophisticated imaging technique based on cosmic radiation, have discovered a huge, unidentified space deep inside the Great Pyramid of Giza, the massive ancient structure built on the outskirts of Cairo some 4,500 years ago.

Red Cross failed to help Dutch Jews during Holocaust

The Dutch branch of the Red Cross did “little or nothing” to help Jews during the Holocaust, research commissioned by the Red Cross found.

Newsweek: Trump is leading the most corrupt administration in U.S. history, one of first-class kleptocrats

According to the presidential historian Robert Dallek, no American leader has acted with more unadulterated self-interest as Trump.

Balfour Declaration of Support for Jewish Homeland Still Divisive at 100

The anniversary of the British document is greeted with tributes and demonstrations.

Bin Laden's disdain for the west grew in Shakespeare's birthplace, journal shows

CIA released journal as part of 470,000 documents collected from Bin Laden’s house, showing he visited the UK as a teenager and found it to be ‘decadent’

Humans didn’t outsmart the Neanderthals. We just outlasted them.

In a new paper published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, Oren Kolodny and his colleague Marc Feldman test a basic hypothesis — that the extinction of the Neanderthals was simply a consequence of population dynamics and bad timing.

Americans say the USA is at a low point

59% say "they consider this to to be the lowest point in our nation’s history that they can remember."

Paul Manafort Was Charged With Breaking a Law That Was Designed to Fight Nazis

Fear of foreign interference in U.S. affairs is about as old as the U.S., but this 1938 law is a response to a specific fear: Americans in the U.S. working for the Nazis.

Is local history too white?

by Knute Berger

If you travel around Washington state and visit local historical societies, you’ll notice that “history” tends to begin with the arrival of white settlers and extend to perhaps one or two generations back.