Current Events that Relate to History

Academics and media turned “machismo” into a cultural stereotype during the Cold War.

The effort to transform the United States’ founding document into a vehicle for egalitarian politics.

A new history of the Mets tries to turn the pain of losing into the struggle of class politics.

Thomas Jefferson began writing the Declaration of Independence 250 years ago this week, and his finest feat was to so perfectly inhabit our collective voice.

Two books about the 1856 caning of a senator show how words can incite violence—and also help defeat it.

The magazine’s explosive growth mirrored the nation's emergence as a global empire.

The long history of emancipation in the United States, from individual escapes and manumissions, through Civil War fighting and Reconstruction legislation, to Juneteenth commemorations.