In his 1947 book The World and Africa, W.E.B. Du Bois remarked that a society built on capitalistic exploitation doesn’t see the “blood on the piano keys.”Throughout his lifetime, piano keys ...

For over a century, U.S. politicians have made condemning student protestors a key feature of their rhetoric. Presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump — even Jimmy Carter and Joe ...

“We need to get the bastards out of here.” It’s a statement that could have been uttered by many American presidents about a wide array of groups through history.

Rethinking the job of history — and the American Historical Association — after the veto of the Gaza “scholasticide” resolution.

In late October 2024, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer attended his first “Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.” At the summit, which took place in Samoa, the issue of reparations for ...

In December 1900, Frank M. Chapman, the first curator of birds at the American Museum of Natural History, proposed the idea of the Christmas Bird Count (CBC) in an article in his magazine Bird ...

The Northeast caught fire this fall, in a way that recalls its past. History has some lessons about how to manage the region’s fire seasons to come.

“There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish … it was so fragile.” So says the dying Emperor Marcus Aurelius at the ...

In 1984, the U.S. rejected the International Court of Justice’s jurisdiction, revealing its tendency to ignore international rules it sees as unfavorable — even when it helped write them.

The U.S. Justice Department recently hauled Google into court for violating an 1890 federal law designed to forestall the unjust consolidation of economic power.

Toward the end of the 19th century, as job opportunities expanded for women and people of color, it became harder to find a cook who was willing to work long and hard hours for limited wages.

Blue Morning, by George Bellows, 1909.[National Gallery of Art]Underground communities, in real life, are usually short-term and provisional. For the most part, people live underground much in the ...