Breaking News

The Depression’s Unheeded Lessons

by Neil Irwin

Economic leaders made the 2008 financial crisis worse through a combination of misinterpreted history and missed opportunities, a new book argues.

Construction Begins On Nixon’s 103rd Birthday For New Presidential Library

Christopher Cox, a grandson of Nixon, and the 37th president’s 85-year- brother Edward will begin the construction at 10:30 a.m. Cox will announce the official opening date of the renovated library.

‘Broken System’ Allows ISIS to Profit From Looted Antiquities

A police raid in Bulgaria was heralded as a rare success against the trafficking of antiquities, but it also highlighted the barriers officials face.

Indians being written into the history of Massachusetts and Harvard

A new project will digitize more than 4,500 petitions on Native American affairs that were sent to the Massachusetts legislature from 1640 to 1870.

The Seal Of Whitesboro, NY, Depicts A White Man Strangling A Native American

Residents voted to keep it.

Mein Kampf,’ Hitler’s Manifesto, Returns to German Shelves

Scholars and historians spent three years preparing a 2,000-page edition with about 3,500 annotations in anticipation of the work entering the public domain.

A tantalizing find from the Jews of medieval Afghanistan

.

Blunt Political Assessments in Bill Clinton Transcripts

Newly released documents offer a fresh look at Bill Clinton’s later years in the White House, including transcribed phone calls and meetings with Tony Blair, the British prime minister.

This Is How the West Tried to Persuade Gaddafi to Give Up Power

The U.K. Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee has released the transcripts of two phone callsbetween former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, the late leader of Libya, in which Blair delicately tries to get Gaddafi give up power.

Why Americans Are More Afraid Than They Used to Be

It was 75 years ago, on Jan. 6, 1941, that President Franklin Roosevelt stood to deliver the "Four Freedoms" State of the Union address. Nearly three quarters of a century later, a poll released in December found that Americans are more fearful of terrorism than at any point since Sept. 11, 2001.

Why the Government Owns So Much Land in the West

Understanding the dispute in Oregon requires a look at American history, and how geography, climate and politics shaped “the frontier.”

It's not just the Oregon militia: Why many Westerners get angry about federal land rights

One of the militia's core grievances does seem to resonate with many people in eastern Oregon. Specifically, they're upset with the way the federal government manages the land it owns around the state. And it owns a lot.

Church Donates $1M to Smithsonian's African-American History Museum

Alfred Street Baptist Church, a historically black congregation in Alexandria that traces its history back to the early 1800s, has announced their donation for the educational institute.

Behind a Shopping Center in New Jersey, Signs of a Mass Extinction

For decades, a quarry provided sand used for water filtration. Now it’s lush with fossil discoveries and opened annually to the public.

The United States' Tense History with Armed Standoffs

The takeover of a federal facility in rural Oregon by well-armed, self-styled militia members poses a huge challenge to U.S. law enforcement and raises the spectre of past standoffs that have led to disastrous loss of lives.

The Creation Story Just Got a Little More Interesting

Ziony Zevit, a renowned professor of Biblical Literature and Northwest Semitic Languages from the American University in California, is making the claim that an early mistranslation of Hebrew has resulted in an inaccurate creation story.

When Christians, Muslims, and Jews Loved Magic

A silver scroll found in Jordan is a reminder of how big the market for ‘magic’ objects was in ancient Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.

Untangling an Accounting Tool and an Ancient Incan Mystery

Archaeologists have made a discovery they hope could help unravel one of the most tenacious mysteries of ancient Peru: how to read the knotted string records, known as khipus, kept by the Incas.

For Donald Trump, Lessons From a Brother’s Suffering

Mr. Trump, whose appeal is predicated on an aura of toughness and perpetual success, seldom speaks of his brother Freddy, who died as an alcoholic in 1981 at age 43.

Conjuring the Magic in New York’s Past

A magician named Belinda Sinclair offers visitors performances that weave in lessons on the women who held séances in the area a century ago.