
History


How New York’s Union Square helped shape free speech in the US

Anti-Semitism: Learning the lessons of history

I’ve started acknowledging the people who lived on this land first – and you should too

How the Dalai Lama is chosen and why China wants to appoint its own

The Flores settlement: A 1985 case that sets the rules for how government can treat migrant children

Red, white but rarely blue - the science of fireworks colors, explained

During World War I, a silent film spoke volumes about freedom of speech

Frederick Douglass, July 4th, and remembering Babylon in America

The Dead Sea Scrolls are a priceless link to the Bible's past

Feeling guilty about drinking? Well, ask the saints

Marie Curie and her X-ray vehicles' contribution to World War I battlefield medicine

In 2019, women's rights are still not explicitly recognized in US Constitution

World War I: is it right to blame the Treaty of Versailles for the rise of Hitler?

The forgotten origins of the modern gay rights movement in WWI

In America's sandwiches, the story of a nation

Why we have globalization to thank for Thanksgiving

The two men who almost derailed New England's first colonies

Where are the voices of indigenous peoples in the Thanksgiving story?
