Originals

Why historians should stop worrying and embrace the rise of history podcasts by non-scholars.

A recent photography exhibit at the Getty Center raises difficult questions about our capacity for empathy.

A generation ago, historians dismissed the Poor People’s Campaign of 1968. On the eve of a reboot, we can see it in a different light.

An appreciation of Alfred Crosby, who coined the term "Columbian exchange."

During the Depression, business leaders knew that public works funding was key to economic growth. Why have we forgotten that lesson?

A new book argues that the fetishization of the first ten amendments is a recent thing – and that it comes at a cost.

Her novels featured dragons and wizards, but they were also deeply grounded in indigenous American ways of thought.

Well off Savannah's tourist trail, there's a replica of an antebellum plantation home in the middle of a public housing project.

Despite his extreme rhetoric, Trump is merely the latest in a long line of U.S. leaders unwilling to pony up for global environmental accords.

One man’s obsession with the ephemera of his industry.

The justification can be found in an obscure section of the Fourteenth Amendment.

A peek inside premodern cookbooks.

The perspectives of older Americans have dominated the debate. It's time we pay more attention to what younger people have to say.

Considering astronomy's history from the shadow of the Arecibo Observatory reveals the discipline's intimate ties to imperialism.

The city that just elected a civil rights lawyer as D.A. is the same city presided over for years by "Mayor Cop" Frank Rizzo.

For decades, the GOP has used tax cuts to achieve its political goals. So why do Dems keep treating "supply-side" as an economic strategy?

Harvard digitizes two centuries of colonial history.

In 1867, African-Americans in Virginia stood up for their new political rights in the face of threats from their white neighbors.

How social media is – and isn't – changing American religion.

Does the trope obscure more than it illuminates about the 2016 election?

This year's Nobel Prize in physics is a blast from the past of Cold War-era research investment. Is that era gone for good?

Claude Lévi-Strauss and the burden of our personal archives.

The Supreme Court is about to take up another blockbuster voting rights case. At its core is a struggle over the limits of history.

John Gregory Bourke’s "Scatalogic Rites of All Nations" and the American West.

What the election of 2016 should mean for the future of studying the past.

Why I decided to devote my professional life to something I wasn't very interested in.

What professional historians do – and don't – have to offer communities struggling with the Confederate monuments in their midst.