Breaking News

PBS revives and restores Ken Burns's hit series on its 25th anniversary

PBS is rerunning the series this week.

Archaeologists discover huge ritual monument near Britain's Stonehenge

Scientists believe the estimated 90 enormous stone monoliths or "superhenge" may have been used for religious rites or solstice rituals.

Documentary on Black Panthers Is a Must-Watch

The film is dense with information, and offers a gripping ride through the picket signs and calls for policy reform that defined the 1960s.

‘Slave Trade’ video game altered after social media backlash

An educational video game has been edited following a social media backlash over a scene depicting slaves being packed into a ship.

If Trump's a narcissist, is that a bad thing?

by Scott Lilenfeld and Ashley Watts

Social scientists say most successful presidents have been narcissists.

Treatment of Migrants Evokes Memories of Europe’s Darkest Hour

Hungary's chief rabbi: "It was horrifying when I saw those images of police putting numbers on people’s arms,”

Most Millennials Resist the ‘Millennial’ Label

Only Baby Boomers by in large think of themselves as members of a certain generation. 

Isis profits from destruction of antiquities by selling relics to dealers – and then blowing up the buildings they come from to conceal the evidence of looting

A Lebanese-French archaeologist tells Robert Fisk about her unique answer to a unique crime

China military parade commemorates WW2 victory over Japan

China has held a lavish parade in Beijing to mark the defeat of Japan in World War Two, showcasing its military might on an unprecedented scale.

This is one reason why Palmyra matters

As a new museum exhibit in Denmark shows, it was the home of world class art.

Isis destruction of Palmyra's Temple of Bel revealed in satellite images

Temple of Bel, the most important site in Palmyra, reduced to rubble as jihadis continue to wreck Syria’s cultural heritage

McKinley's lost his mountain. Should we still remember his presidency?

by Lewis Gould

The answer is yes. But the Ohio members of Congress are wrong to think the mountain was named in honor of the slain president. The naming took place before he was even nominated. 

How the Black Panthers Fought to Make Black Lives Matter in the ’60s and ’70s

Stanley Nelson’s timely documentary brings some clarity to the murky history of one of the civil rights era’s most militant groups.

Sanders, Trump et al: Partying Like It’s 1968

Aftershocks from that year’s presidential election are being felt in this year’s surprising campaign

In Trump’s plan, an unsettling echo from US past

Around 500,000 to 1 million Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans were pushed out of the country during the 1930s repatriation, as the removal is sometimes called.

New documentary explores the legacy of the 5,000 Rosenwald schools set up by a Sears magnate and Booker T. Washington

Long forgotten, after Brown, most were shuttered. Often consisting of just two or three classrooms, the schools were the heart of their communities, cradles of pride built on land often donated by black farmers.

A Rare Moment of Japan-Korea Remembrance and Reconciliation

by Tessa Morris-Suzuki

The bones of 115 Koreans brought to Japan as laborers during the Asia-Pacific War will be carried along a route of remembrance to their final resting place in Korea.

It happened in Idaho and was the largest massacre of Indians in US history, but where exactly did it take place?

Archaeologists are now trying to find out.

NYT profiles a path-breaking transgender pioneer who became a judge

Decades before Caitlyn Jenner, Phyllis Frye was grappling with bias, scorn and personal pain, and helping the transgender movement take shape.

British Library rejects Taliban trove fearing terror laws

Academics have criticised the British government for creating a "climate of fear" after the national library declined to store the world's biggest collection of Taliban-related documents over concerns it could be prosecuted under terrorism laws.