In scrutinizing statues honoring Confederate figures, journalists have overlooked military bases named after generals who fought to defend the slavery of black people.
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The claim of “resistance” inside the White House offers the possibility of government by Trump appointees who prefer to keep their positions rather than publicly denounce a man they disapprove of.
The reverberations of JFK’s assassination can still be felt to this day in the paranoid and racialised politics of the American right
How politicians have won over voters through the art of the comeback throughout history.
Enslaved workers used to grow cotton and mill flour. Now prisoners grind beef and crate eggs. Here, a historian explores Americans’ troubling habit of consuming the products of slave labor.
Huge fires roared through Yellowstone National Park in the summer of 1988, scorching one-third of the park. Since then the park has been a valuable lab for studying how forests recover from fires.
A giant of the US political scene, John McCain had friends and enemies on all sides.
Almost two years in, Trump finally has a science adviser in position. History demonstrates that the role is at least as political as it is scientific.
Confrontational characters spouting conspiracy theories and fringe ideas have been around since American broadcasting began. With Alex Jones banished from the web, someone else will take his place.
The Ogalalla Aquifer is a vast underground lake that irrigates farms across the US Great Plains. It took thousands of years to fill, but human use could drain it in roughly a century.
Many cities are removing their Confederate statues. But pioneer monuments represent a racist past, too. There are at least 200 of them, and their future is now being debated.
Fifty years ago, an insurance agent named Paul Simpson was convinced of rampant bias on the evening news. So he embarked on a project to record each broadcast and store them at Vanderbilt University.
An American pilot. A German aide on Capitol Hill. In the first and second world wars, the FBI effectively uprooted foreign influence campaigns. Today, the agency faces an uphill battle.
From the 1930s to the 1960s, ‘The Negro Motorist’s Green Book’ and ‘Travelguide: Vacation and Recreation Without Humiliation’ offered African-American roadtrippers lists of black-friendly businesses.
The Whole Earth Catalog was a blueprint for sustainability that envisioned humans living in balance with nature. Its creative spirit was welcomed in a year riven by war, assassinations and riots.
A historian explains the significance of the Emmett Till murder for the civil rights movement.
In 1987, Anthony Kennedy was nominated to end a titanic Supreme Court fight. Could his putative successor trigger another one?
Big technology firms are becoming known for mistreating workers, customers and society as a whole. Is an economic powerhouse about to collapse like Detroit did years go?
After two years of turmoil at the EPA in the 1980s, President Reagan hit the reset button, choosing a Republican who supported environmental protection to head the agency.
The alignment of Independence Day and a presidential visit to Britain makes more sense than you might think.
Principais colaboradores
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Associate Professor of History, Penn State
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Distinguished Professor of History and Environmental Studies, Penn State
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Professor of Journalism, Indiana University
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Professor of Earth Science, University of Connecticut
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Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Utah
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Professor of Urban Policy and Planning, Hunter College
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Chester D. Tripp Professor of History, Yale University
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Teaching Fellow, Queen Mary University of London
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Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Emeritus Professor of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
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Professor of History, McGill University
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Lecturer, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington
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Professor of History, University of the Pacific
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PhD Candidate in History, University of Leeds
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Associate Professor, Contemporary Histories Research Group, Deakin University
