Current Events that Relate to History

The Trump Administration is using the painting to argue the founders were devout Christians, but historians have doubts about its accuracy.

Texas Democrats can win by reviving the state's forgotten populist tradition of labor activism and working-class politics.

The John Birch Society, the Anti-Defamation League, and the American tradition of infiltrating and exposing radical organizations.

After a startling discovery about the historic conditions of its American Indian Boarding School, one Catholic Sisterhood moved to make reparations.

Norman Rockwell's family obsession with psychoanalysis.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has been the loudest booster of the new Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library. And T.R.’s conservation legacy? Not so much.

Voting, a right not initially enshrined in the Constitution, has been secured, revoked, and contested since the nation's founding era.