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Martin Luther King preaching at Ebeneezer Church.

Lessons from MLK's Fight to Mobilize the Black Church

The history of Black churches’ struggles offers both warnings and hope for the U.S. today.

by Dylan C. Penningroth via TIME on January 13, 2024

Margaretta Hare Morris.

The Mischievous Morris Sisters

Two gifted sisters in Philadelphia helped to transform early American science.

by Catherine McNeur via American Heritage on December 17, 2023

Former U.S. President Donald Trump prepares to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference CPAC held at the Hilton Anatole on Aug. 6, 2022 in Dallas.

What Civil War History Says About Attempts to Use the Insurrection Clause to Keep Trump From Office

Debates about handling Confederates reveal that the 14th Amendment bars unrepentant insurrectionists from office.

by Elizabeth R. Varon via Made By History on November 15, 2023

Rubble in the aftermath of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima

Big Six v. Little Boy: The Unnecessary Bomb

A new book's insistence that the bomb was necessary to bring about Japan’s surrender is largely contradicted by its own evidence.

by Andrew Cockburn via London Review of Books on November 15, 2023

Max von Sydow and Jason Miller in ‘The Exorcist.’

‘The Exorcist’ & Catholicism

What explains the traditionalist Catholic infatuation with ‘The Exorcist’?

by Paul Baumann via Commonweal on October 31, 2023

Salt Lake Temple

How September 1993, When LDS Leaders Disciplined Six Dissidents, Continues to Trouble the Church

Many faiths face conflicts over institutional control. In Latter-day Saints history, the episode around the ‘September Six’ is particularly memorable.

by Benjamin E. Park via The Conversation on September 13, 2023

Greek philosopher sitting at a desk and looking at a laptop.

History, Fast and Slow

Two new books model radically different ways of studying the past.

by Jacob Mikanowski via The Chronicle of Higher Education on September 13, 2023

Cover of the book "24/7 Politics," featuring photos of Nixon and Carter.

The Battlefields of Cable

How cable TV transformed politics—and how politics transformed cable TV.

by Jesse Walker via Reason on August 15, 2023

A view of the Grand Canyon.

When the Government Tried to Flood the Grand Canyon

In the 1960s, the government proposed the construction of two dams in the Grand Canyon, potentially flooding much of Grand Canyon National Park.

by Livia Gershon, Byron E. Pearson via JSTOR Daily on August 12, 2023

A man wearing sunglasses holding a sign

Kool Herc and the History (and Mystery) of Hip-Hop's First Day

Even as the world celebrates hip-hop turning 50, the debate over rap's birth date spins on.

by David Browne via Rolling Stone on August 11, 2023

Front entrance of the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The Mütter and More

Why we need to be critical of medical museums as spaces for disability histories.

by Aparna Nair via Disability Visibility Project on July 29, 2023

Layered collage of an eye over the portrait of Thomas Jefferson, against the backdrop of the Declaration of Independence.

Who Really Wrote ‘the Pursuit of Happiness’?

The voice of Doctor Johnson, archcritic of the American Revolution, was constantly in mind for the Declaration of Independence’s drafter.

by Peter Moore via The Atlantic on July 4, 2023

Five generations of a family pose at the plantation where they were enslaved, soon after Union forces arrived in Beaufort, South Carolina, 1863.

More Than 100 U.S. Political Elites Have Family Links to Slavery

Among America's political elite, 5 living presidents, 2 Supreme Court justices, 11 governors, and 100 legislators have ancestors who enslaved Black people.

by Tom Lasseter, Lawrence Delevingne, Makini Brice, Donna Bryson, Nicholas P. Brown, Tom Bergin via Reuters on June 27, 2023

Justice Clarence Thomas.

Clarence Thomas Wants to Demolish Indian Law

The conservative justice is on course for an originalist fight with Neil Gorsuch.

by Matt Ford via The New Republic on June 23, 2023

Visitors sit before the Benin plaques exhibit (known as the Benin Bronzes) at the British Museum in London.

Museum Reparations

Should museums only exhibit work of their own culture, or should they bring the world to visitors?

by Katrina Gulliver via Law & Liberty on June 7, 2023

A man speaking to a veteran.

Treason Made Odious Again

Reflections from the Naming Commission, and the front lines of the army's war on the Lost Cause.

by Connor Williams via Muster on May 30, 2023

Collage showing people gathering at the site of school shootings.

The Second Generation of School Shootings

The fear that overtook us that day in 1988 was unfamiliar to most Americans. Now all too many know how it feels.

by Sarah Churchwell via The Atlantic on May 23, 2023

Helen Hamilton Gardener circa 1920.

Intellectual, Suffragist and Pathbreaking Federal Employee: Helen Hamilton Gardener

Gardner's public service did not end with her lifelong advocacy for women's equality, but continued even after her death.

by Allison S. Finkelstein via Arlington National Cemetery on April 13, 2023

Collage of DNA sequence and scientists, reading "Your Child's IQ: What Role Does Heredity Play?"

Losing the Genetic Lottery

How did a field meant to reclaim genetics from Nazi abuses wind up a haven for race science?

by Padmini Raghunath via Distillations on April 6, 2023

A diagram of the solar system from 1781, focused on Uranus.

American Uranus

The early republic and the seventh planet.

by M. A. Davis via Age of Revolutions on April 3, 2023

White pillars broken in pieces, forming an X.

The Right Side of History

How should historians respond to the urgency of this current political moment?

by Emma Green via The New Yorker on March 7, 2023

Illustration of the word Facism, divided by various speach bubbles.

Does American Fascism Exist?

For nearly a century, Americans have been throwing the term around—without agreeing what that means.

by Daniel Bessner via The New Republic on March 6, 2023

Painting of flowers called "The Island Garden," by Childe Hassam, 1892.

A Wiser Sympathy

How Emily Dickinson, scientists, and other writers theorized plant intelligence in the nineteenth century.

by Mary Kuhn via Lapham’s Quarterly on February 15, 2023

Painting of 19th century British schoolgirls walking in a group

Hearts and Minds

What we fight about when we fight about schools.

by Paul Tough via Lapham’s Quarterly on December 31, 2022

Collage of two photos of Marilyn Monroe.

Who Was the Real Marilyn Monroe?

"Blonde," a heavily fictionalized film by Andrew Dominik, explores the star's life and legend in a narrative that's equal parts glamorous and disturbing.

by Grant Wong via Smithsonian on September 26, 2022

A drawn portrait of James Baldwin in front of a line drawing of a classroom with desks.

The Fire This Time

How James Baldwin speaks to lethal myths of white innocence—and why his work belongs in public-school classrooms.

by Sana Hashmi via The Forum on August 30, 2022

Panel of medieval-era paintings depicting humans and animals.

When Did Racism Begin?

The history of race has animated a highly contentious, sometimes fractious debate among scholars.

by Vanita Seth via The Chronicle of Higher Education on August 19, 2022

Is History History? Identity Politics and Teleologies of the Present

When historians concede to discuss the past with the terms of the present, they abandon the skill set that makes them historians.

by James H. Sweet via Perspectives on History on August 17, 2022

"Mademoiselle V...in the Costume of an Espada," by Edouard Manet, a painting of a woman dressed as a matador holding sword and cloth.

A Private Matter

Abortion and "The Scarlet Letter."

by Dana Medoro via Lapham’s Quarterly on August 3, 2022

Rally honoring Martin Luther King Jr., Central Park, New York City, 1968

A Case of the Mondays

The beginning of the fight for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

by Daniel T. Fleming via Lapham’s Quarterly on June 29, 2022

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