Rush Limbaugh reacts as President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address.
AP Photo/Patrick Semansky
Researchers have analyzed data from the last 50 years of medals to learn what presidents consider important and what legacy they hope to leave behind.
African American Vernacular English is part and parcel of Black identity. Its distinctive linguistic features are
denigrated — wrongly.
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African American Vernacular English is part and parcel of Black identity. Its distinctive linguistic features are — wrongly — denigrated.
Joseph Morales and company in ‘Hamilton,’ the musical that opens to sold out shows in Toronto this month. The show highlights early ambition in America.
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Lin-Manuel Miranda’s blockbuster portrayal of Alexander Hamilton, one of the most colourful founding fathers, opens this month in Toronto.
Black names have changed over the centuries.
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A scholar disproves the long-held assumption that black names are a recent phenomenon.
Hip-hop officially became the most popular music genre in 2018 and continued its reign in 2019, according to Nielsen Music.
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For the second year in a row, hip-hop music is the most popular form of music in the US. So why isn’t it in more of America’s classrooms? A hip-hop scholar weighs in.
Sheep grazing on BLM land near Shoshone, Idaho.
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Do public lands in the West belong to Westerners, or all Americans? Moving a federal agency’s headquarters from Washington, DC to Colorado is the latest skirmish in a longtime struggle.
Many African Americans made education a high priority after the Civil War.
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Many historians and other scholars say what Americans have traditionally learned about the complex period that followed the Civil War falls short of what we should know.
The waters of Quitobaquito in southern Arizona have attracted diverse visitors for thousands of years.
Jared Orsi
Border wall construction through Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona is encroaching on a site where people from many cultures have interacted for thousands of years.
Two of Alexander Hamilton’s Federalist Papers addressed impeachment.
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Teachers grappling with how to teach current events at divisive times should emphasize history, study original sources and address polarization.
NBC Berlin correspondent Piers Anderton inside the tunnel during the network’s 1962 escape project.
Special Collections & University Archives, University of Maryland
A media historian uses declassified government documents to show how both sides of the Iron Curtain worked to have the projects canned.
Antietam National Battlefield, Maryland, site of a savage Civil War battle on Sept. 17, 1862.
NPS
Protected from development, natural landscapes worldwide are emerging from the violence of war.
Wind whips embers from a tree burned by a wildfire in Riverside, Calif. Oct. 31, 2019.
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The Earth may be entering an era in which natural and human-generated fire together are reshaping the planet.
Buildings at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, illuminated by George Westinghouse’s alternating current.
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Long before Apple vs. Microsoft or Facebook vs. Google, there was Edison vs. Westinghouse.
Food didn’t become gendered until the late 19th century.
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In the early 20th century, women’s food started being described as ‘dainty,’ meaning fanciful but not filling.
A girl from El Salvador leaves a shelter in Buffalo, New York.
Reuters/Chris Helgren
Over the past few decades, the US has gradually lowered the ceiling for refugees.
A team photograph of the 1919 Chicago White Sox squad, many of whom would be implicated in throwing that year’s World Series.
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Up until the 1919 Black Sox Scandal, gambling and baseball had a marriage of convenience. A century later, gambling is again being seen as a solution to the sport’s woes.
Native American burial mound at Lake Jackson Mounds State Park, north of Tallahassee, Fla.
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In just five Florida Panhandle counties, sea level rise could swamp more than 500 archaeological sites that tell the story of when and how Native Americans lived along the Gulf Coast.
Mary E. Harper (left) and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (right), whose two photos in ‘Atlanta Offering’ are unusual.
Unidentified Artist, 1895, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, & Rare Book Library, Emory University
A 19th-century volume contained a mystery for two historians who combined their knowledge to tell the story of the women and their contributions to American democracy.
The signing of the U.S. Constitution.
Architect of the Capitol
The Framers of the Constitution knew their history, and sought to learn from it – and only to repeat the parts they liked.
The Rosa Parks Barbie (centre) with other figures from the Inspiring Women Series. From L to R: Katherine Johnson, Sally Ride, Frida Kahlo and Amelia Earhart.
Mattel, Inc.
It’s great that toy companies are celebrating diverse role models, but children could be taught so much more in their write ups of their stories.