New perspectives on how history is made
London's infamous pea soup fog remains unchallenged as the worst air pollution in history.
The sexy-costume trend reveals how far we have strayed from the truly naughty roots of Halloween.
The Tea Party has roots that date back to the passage of the income tax amendment.
Nationalization of oil in Mexico is an existential question.
How unpopular opinions move history forward.
Jon Wiener on Bill Ayers' new autobiography, "Public Enemy: Confessions of an American Dissident."
Authoritarian regimes tend not to last past the seventy-year mark.
Think the Nigerian prince email scam is new? Think again.
Same-sex marriage opponents in Illinois are literally out of ideas.
GOP base doesn't understand right wants to turn Medicare, Social Security and more into a very similar program.
How to best deal with the transnational history of slavery.
By leveraging race and religion — especially in the South — he set an example for today's bitter politics.
Cicero would have had a Twitter account.
It's a harder job than it looks.
The Pashtun tribes of Central Asia have a history of strong women.
The "Académie Française of the dead" is still an old-boys club.
David Blight discusses how the movie 12 Years A Slave clashes with American's collective identity as a progressive country.
For its 50th anniversary, the poverty line calculation should be rejiggered to reflect reality.
Today's Republicans are so contemptuous of American history and institutions that they cannot learn from even their own recent past.
The pope focuses on the basics.
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