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How Columbus Day Became Known as an Italian-American Holiday

By Olivia B. Waxman

Rome Didn't Fall When You Think It Did

By Edward J. Watts

What Smallpox Teaches Us About Controlling Future Pandemics

By Kyle Harper

What History Teaches Us About Women Forced to Carry Unwanted Pregnancies to Term

By Kelly O’Connor McNees
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U.S. Immigrant Detention Centers Began with Haitian Migrants

The Biden Administration condemned a Border Patrol agent’s actions against Haitian migrants in Del Rio, Texas. Historians, however, see a pattern

By Jasmine Aguilera September 30, 2021

Is Ukraine’s Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Kremlin Propaganda?

On a breezy afternoon last spring, the Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman took me on a tour of a public park near the center of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, along with a team of aides,...

By Simon Shuster/Kyiv September 29, 2021

The Overlooked American Survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

More than 75 years after the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. 6 and Aug. 9, 1945, roughly 136,000 people are living with the memories—and effects—of the...

By Olivia B. Waxman September 29, 2021

The Rise and Fall of a Dangerous Political Movement in Revolutionary America

The Brethren did not begin as a tory uprising. Ironically, its members—a group of eastern North Carolina yeomen—believed themselves to be responding to a tyrannical conspiracy against Protestant liberty, and in resistance against forced military...

By Brendan McConville September 28, 2021

Why We Must Hear the Warning in Frederick Douglass' 'Sources of Danger to the Republic' Today

On Jan. 3, 1867, nearly two years after the end of the Civil War, Frederick Douglass stood before a full house of hundreds of African Americans at Philadelphia’s National Hall. He had been invited to...

By Robert S. Levine September 24, 2021

How Wealthy American Expats Transformed the British Aristocracy

It could have been a screenplay for one of those gentle comedies that British film studios used to do so well: In 1924, a young American from Portland, Maine, was on vacation in England and...

By Adrian Tinniswood September 21, 2021

What It Was Like to Be Near Ground Zero on 9/11

About 17 minutes passed between the time I stepped out of the subway station and United Airlines flight 175 crashing into the south tower

By HOWIE RUMBERG / Associated Press September 10, 2021

The U.S. Turned Away Jewish Refugees in 1939. We Must Not Repeat History With Afghans Fleeing the Taliban

In May 1939, more than 900 Jewish refugees boarded the MS St. Louis in Hamburg, hoping to flee Nazi Germany for the relative safety of Cuba. Due to the restrictive immigrant quota system in the...

By Frank Sobchak September 10, 2021

With Monuments, Memorials, U.S. Mourns Locally for COVID-19

They are also pushing for permanent, national recognition of the pandemic’s toll

By Simmone Shah September 10, 2021

How a Domestic Violence Exposé Ushered In a New Era for the Miss America Pageant

The story of how Carolyn Sapp, Miss America 1992, became an accidental domestic violence crusader marks the moment that a new era for Miss America came into focus. The pageant had barreled out of the...

By Amy Argetsinger September 9, 2021
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