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This Is When Your Politicians Have Lied About History

by Allen Mikaelian

A visual record of the lies, fibs, and ignorance of politicians based on Politifact's database.

Revealing moments in black history, with unpublished photos from The New York Times’s archives

The paper will be making new images public throughout February, black history month.

Here's A Way To Google Black History Like Never Before

The Google Cultural Institute has made rare historical artifacts -- including writings by Martin Luther King and Frederick Douglass -- digitally accessible.

How Moon Dust Languished in a Downing Street Cupboard

The moon dust’s fate was revealed by Britain’s National Archives, which released 178 pages of correspondence on the subject going back 30 years.

Professor Sanders Offers a History Lecture

Hillary Clinton once joked that she comes from the ’60s. But sometimes Bernie Sanders still lives there.

This Is How February Became Black History Month

Two very important birthdays helped activists choose when to celebrate

New York Council Resists Renaming Effort to Honor Evacuation Day

The anniversary of the British evacuation of New York in 1783 has been so forgotten that City Council lawyers are resisting efforts to name a street after the historical event the holiday commemorates.

The Iowa caucuses: An accident of history

So Iowa's got an oversized importance in national politics?  Blame Jimmy Carter. 

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Louis Brandeis inspired my work for women’s rights

She admired Brandeis for his “craftsmanship, his sense of collegiality and his ability to combine a judicial restraint with the readiness to defend civil rights and liberties.”

Stalin 'used secret laboratory to analyse Mao's excrement'

A former Soviet agent says he has found evidence that Joseph Stalin spied on Mao Zedong, among others, by analysing excrement to construct psychological portraits.

The latest American Experience documentary tells the story of James Garfield’s assassination

James Garfield was an American hero when he was alive, but his life and assassination are now largely overlooked

Georgia State Rep. Tommy Benton: KKK Straightened People Out

“It made a lot of people straighten up,” the Republican lawmaker said.

Israel releases Nazi Eichmann's execution plea papers

Adolf Eichmann, an architect of the Nazi Holocaust, protested his innocence in a final plea against his death sentence, newly released papers show.

Archaeologists in England Tackle Mystery of Prehistoric Village’s Rapid Demise

No one knows why a catastrophic fire tore through the small settlement that rose by a river channel. Yet answers are emerging, piece by piece, some 3,000 years later.

4 Times the World Came Close to ‘Doomsday’

Scientists say the Doomsday Clock is still three minutes from midnight.

Amherst College Drops ‘Lord Jeff’ as Mascot

The debate over Lord Jeffery’s role on campus erupted amid a series of controversies at colleges, municipalities and other institutions around the country over the use of historical figures, like slaveholders or Confederate battle figures; stereotypes, particularly about Native Americans; or symbols that some consider offensive.

WW1 Era U-Boat Discovered off British Coast

The German submarine, which had been missing in action for more than a century, was found during a detailed scan of the seabed for windfarm development.

David Stoliar, Survivor of World War II Disaster, Dies at 91

Mr. Stoliar was the only survivor among nearly 800 Jews fleeing Romania’s Holocaust aboard a ship that was barred from Palestine, interned by Turkey, set adrift and torpedoed by a Soviet submarine.

Map shows how culture in the Middle East is under threat

It shows, sadly, the clear march of destruction by Daesh and its sympathizers.

Human Memory Capacity is Ten Times More Than Previously Thought

A human brain could hold as much information as the entire internet, a new study finds.