Israelis and Palestinians both invoke their territory’s colonial past to support their national claims. What does that use of history obscure ...

Mark Tauger teaches history at West Virginia University. This book has new information on Ukrainian culture in the 1920s, Ukrainian émigré historiography of the famine after World War II, the ...

He was accused of treason. Only the hunger for reconciliation saved him. Seven weeks after Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House, Judge John C. Underwood demanded justice, while ...

The chilling details of the U.S. military's plan to use the very scientists who had been essential to Hitler’s war effort.

Credit: Wiki Commons.#1 Independence Was Declared on the Fourth of July.America's independence was actually declared by the Continental Congress on July 2, 1776. The night of the second the ...

The poster became a cheap transmitter of these various messages and combined visual arts with psychological methods to incessantly repeat Nazi ideologies to the German public.

In 2009, Peter Henriques made a startling announcement in an oft-cited piece for History News Network: There is “absolutely no extant contemporary evidence,” he wrote, to support the ...

The Klan operated in California and other western states after the Civil War. Its target in those states was frequently Chinese laborers.

Is it Muslim or Moslem?When Baby Boomers were children it was Moslem. The American Heritage Dictionary (1992) noted,"Moslem is the form predominantly preferred in journalism and popular usage ...

The teacher strikes we saw in 2018 have their roots in an overlooked movement that began in the 1960s.

The history of the United States is a history of settler colonialism.

This is something you don’t learn in school. Pirates pioneered many of the features we associate with democracy.