DETERMINED TO REMEMBER: HARRIET JACOBS AND SLAVERY'S DESCENDANTS by Koritha Mitchell Public history sites have the potential to spark intellectual engagement because when they make embod...
James Peale, "The Artist and His Family," 1795 Historians have spent decades investigating whether the American Revolution benefited women or provoked changes in women’s status. By and large,...
Striding masterfully through St. George’s Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace, Vlad the Conqueror pondered his role as a Man of Destiny. “It’s not easy to measure up to the past leaders of ...
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Members of the Combahee River Collective, 1974. Included are (back row, l-r) Margo Okazawa-Rey, Barbara Smith, Beverly Smith, Chirlane McCray, and Mercedes Tompkins; (front row, l-r) Demita F...
"American Army Entering the City of Mexico" by Filippo Constaggini, 1885. Architect of the Capitol. In April 1846, the United States invaded Mexico after a highly disputed incident at the bor...
Some of the 800 members of Women Strike for Peace who marched at United Nations headquarters in Manhattan to demand UN mediation of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis It should come as no su...
Desertification, village of Telly, Mali. Photo Ferdinand Reus , CC BY-SA 2.0 The 24 main chapters of The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by British historian Peter Frankopan cover ...
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The latest twist in America’s culture wars saw crowds at the capitol in Salt Lake City this summer, protesting a book ban from the elementary and middle school libraries of Davis County, Utah....
An 1880 Puck Cartoon depicts Ulysses Grant surrendering his sword to James Garfield after being defeated for the Republican nomination. The candidate, at first glance, seemed to have no busin...
On March 25, 1945, the United States Army issued “Fact Sheet #64: Fascism! ” to promote discussions amongst American troops about fascism as the war in Europe wound down to a close. Discussio...
Matthew Hawn, a high school teacher for sixteen years in conservative Sullivan County, Tennessee, opened the 2020-21 year in his Contemporary Issues class with a discussion of police shootings. ...
Blaine Harden (Photo by Jessica Kowal) "The Whitman lie is a timeless reminder that in America a good story has an insidious way of trumping a true one, especially if that story confirms our vi...
Novelist Anna Maria Porter, engraving The Ladies' Pocket Magazine (1824) This image is available from the New York Public Library 's Digital Library under the digital ID 1556053: digitalgalle...
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Prisoners at Sachsenhausen concentration camp wear triangle badges indicating the nature of their offenses against Nazi social code (pink would indicate homosexuality). National Archives and Reco...
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In April, a Texas judge ruled invalid the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of a pill used in over half the abortions in America. Going further, he invoked the federal Comstock Act to d...
DANIEL ELLSBERG'S MORAL COURAGE WAS UNSPARING, EVEN OF HIMSELF by Erik Baker Turning against Vietnam wasn't Daniel Ellsberg's great moral achievement. That was his realization that he ha...
John de Graaf and Stewart Udall We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.—Stewart Udall Stewart Udall (1920-2010) may be the most effective environmentalist in our history considering...
Image NOAA Eleven thousand years ago, all of Canada, save the Yukon Valley, was under ice. The country was literally a blank slate. Then warming set in, the land vegetated, people entered, ...
"The 2000 Yard Stare", by Thomas Lea, 1944, WWII. The Army Art Collection, U.S. Army Center for Military History Will Robinson, an American Iraq war veteran, languished for months with depressi...
On the day when the Russian human rights organization Memorial became a co-winner of the Nobel Peace prize last year, its activists had very little opportunity to process the news. October 7, 202...
Photo from records of LaFollette Committee, National Archives and Records Administration In July 1943, former Hollywood screenwriter Ayn Rand was still tracking responses, critical and commerci...
Incarcerated laborers sew military uniforms under the UNICOR (Federal Prison Industries) program Juneteenth is a bittersweet day for Black people in prison holding onto the promise of freedom...
Leonard Raven-Hill, "For Auld Lang Syne" from Punch, 1912 And they’re off. With just a year and a half to go, Ron DeSantis has finally thrown his hat into the ring. Now the race for the GOP n...
The Fra Mauro Map, 1460 One of the most significant word maps now hangs in the Correr Museum in Venice, Italy. This map is seven feet in diameter, inked on velum, and covered with over 3,000 in...
Ronald L. Feinman is the author of Assassinations, Threats, and the American Presidency (Rowman Littlefield Publishers, 2015, Paperback Edition 2017). As the presidential campaign of 2024 beco...
James Baldwin and Bob Dylan at a dinner of the Emergency Civil Rights Committee, where Dylan would give a notorious speech in acceptance of the organization's Thomas Paine Award. THE KENNEDY AS...
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) points to a painting commissioned by Harlan Crow depicting a meeting at Crow's vacation retreat including Federalist Society head Leonard Leo (2nd from left), Ju...
Ukrainian Auxiliary Police during Nazi occupation, c. 1943. Photo Bundesarchiv. Jared McBride, an Assistant Professor in UCLA’s History Department , sat down with HNN to discuss his researc...
Cody Keenan (Photo by Melanie Dunea) Other than being able to string a sentence together, empathy is the most important quality in a speechwriter. The ability or at least the attempt to underst...
A pivotal SCOTUS case, Haaland v. Brackeen, centers on the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), landmark legislation passed in 1978. With a decision coming at any moment, I spoke with Matthew L.M. F...
Last week Title 42, a Trump-era policy that has limited immigration for the last three years, expired. Still, the Biden administration warned people arriving at the border that “the border is ...
LADY VOLS COUNTRY by Jessica Wilkerson The author remembers Pat Summitt's championship women's basketball teams at the University of Tennessee as a demonstration of how sports "encompass...
WHY HISTORIANS LOVE COMPARING THEMSELVES TO THE GREAT DETECTIVES by Carolyn Eastman The best point of comparison between Holmes and historian isn't in solving the case but in the struggl...
Old-growth redwoods, Headwaters Forest Reserve (CA) In 1985, fresh out of college, I took a job as a reporter in my hometown of Guerneville, a small village set alongside the Russian River in w...
Plato and Aristotle in detail from The School of Athens by Raphael (1509–1510), fresco at the Apostolic Palace , Vatican City . Every few years there is a movie about a gifted young p...
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The eagerness with which movie and television studios have proposed to use artificial intelligence to write content collides with the concern of Writers Guild members for their employment securit...
From "Messaline Dans La Loge de Lisisca," Agostino Carraci, 16th c., depicting the rumored moonlighting of the first-century empress in a Roman brothel. Towards the end of 48 CE a workman carri...
I'M HEADED TO FLORIDA TO TEACH-IN AGAINST DESANTIS'S EDUCATION POLICIES by Kellie Carter Jackson This May 17 saw a 24-hour teach-in by historians in St. Petersburg, Florida, to protest t...
Martha Hodes (l) and her older sister Catherine on the single passport they shared. Photo courtesy of Martha Hodes. On September 6, 1970 Martha Hodes, then aged 12, and her older sister Catheri...