New perspectives on how history is made
How trade shaped the lives of the people who lived in a 17th century West African port town.
Revisiting the lessons of Allan Bérubé’s 1990 history of queer solders during World War II.
In the mid-19th century, governments on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border set out to recast North America’s political landscape.
Meet Clio, a pedagogical tool that doubles as a travel app to get people hooked on learning history.
In the 17th-century Caribbean, a person’s legal status depended on who controlled the land where they labored.
A scorched shoe is a crucial part of Zelda Fitzgerald’s modern mythology. But there’s no proof it existed.
A Black socialist magazine urges solidarity and action in 1919.
An HBCU president looks to Kwame Nkrumah’s leadership in Ghana for inspiration.
The 21st century American city was forged in the embers of the 1970s arson wave.
Comparing the dueling versions of history found in Gothic fiction.
On the women who helped make — and keep making — the Bayeux Tapestry.
In public schools around the country, conservatives are succeeding in their long effort to replace the word “democracy” with “constitutional republic.”
Early American elites were fascinated with genealogy, despite the ways it attached them to the Old World.
The long and winding tale behind the Resolute Desk.
The 1893 World’s Fair and the origins of Aunt Jemima.
How the “obstetrical dilemma” and the dark history of pelvimetry met in the present.
What JD Vance excludes from the history of the Civil War and immigration.
Two stories from the 19th century about government records being falsified to foment distrust of nonwhite Americans.
On the long history of governments attempting to restrict access to documents about their inner workings.
Films about the Iraq War prize “truth-telling,” but don’t offer many insights about the war itself.
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