
History


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?

What the first Thanksgiving dinner actually looked like

How Sears helped make women, immigrants and people of color feel more like Americans

Religion and refugees are deeply entwined in the US

Ideologically motivated far-right extremists have killed close to 500 people since 1990 – and 10...

Bombs are part of American political history

What history reveals about surges in anti-Semitism and anti-immigrant sentiments

Influenza's wild origins in the animals around us

The Village Voice’s photographers captured change, turmoil unfolding on New York City’s streets

Talking heads: what toilets and sewers tell us about ancient Roman sanitation

Why the Christian idea of hell no longer persuades people to care for the poor
