History

Princeton University historian Kevin Kruse offers lessons in how to push back against the lies of the far right.

• By David M. Perry

New research finds that people living in climatically turbulent regions tend to make riskier decisions than those in relatively more stable environments.

• By Jared Keller

An archive works to conserve the stories of the 1947 Partition of India.

• By Ariel Ramchandani

Stephen E. Maizlish's new book discusses a time much like our own, when radicals in Congress hurled insults while moderates bemoaned a lack of civility.

• By Oliver Lee Bateman

The hurried and partisan Supreme Court confirmation process for Brett Kavanaugh mirrors several notable examples of similarly politicized confirmations from our past.

• By Calvin Schermerhorn

The author (and puppeteer) discusses climate change, discrimination, and how to write science fiction with a happy ending.

• By David M. Perry

In Tulelake, California, a municipal airport was built on the site of a former internment camp, and now it is at the center of a serious debate over preserving the historical significance of the land.

• By Alastair Boone

In his new book Don Mitchell, an emeritus professor of geography at Syracuse University, uses a unique lens to chronicle New York City through the centuries: its protests.

• By Mimi Kirk

Almost all American archives are at risk from disasters or changing temperatures. Community history will probably be the first to go.

• By Sophie Yeo

On how politics and fear, rather than the day-to-day risks and realities of life at the U.S.-Mexico border, have historically shaped border policies.

• By Mark Binelli

Is a moment of solidarity possible in an age of decentralized media?

• By Jared Keller

White Americans are bound by a false past.

• By Rachel Jamison Webster

Historian Liam Hogan has spent the last six years debunking the Irish slave myth.

• By David M. Perry

For Pi Day, a mathematician breaks down a figure that goes beyond the universal.

• By Daniel Ullman

To make sense of the current conversation on immigration, we must look to our country's difficult past.

• By Donna A. Patterson

Companies can reach into their archives to reaffirm their culture and demonstrate a differentiating legacy.

• By Rick Paulas

Medicine, history, and rare age disorders are reshaping the way researchers view the process of aging, and it may extend lives for decades.

• By Ana Gorelova

The roots of the holiday, traced from its origins with pagan Celts through its various modern iterations around the world today.

• By Regina Hansen

Right-wing diatribes about Columbus Day combine a fear of the future with a refusal to really look at the past.

• By David M. Perry

How the blurred lines between history and politics turned an architect of destruction into a national icon.

• By William Francis Keegan

A new initiative by the National Park Service seeks to designate sites for their historic significance in the Reconstruction era. It's a bold and vital move for an agency that has only recently begun to seriously address the racial complexities of the Civil War.

• By Maura Ewing

With a new school year underway in Charlottesville, here's how teachers are addressing the recent violence.

• By Mimi Kirk

Pacific Standard traces a history that includes Alice in Wonderland, Sibylline prophecies, and B-E-N-G-H-A-Z-I.

• By Francie Diep

Last week, over 3,800 CIA and FBI documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy were released to the public. To put the release in context, we spoke with John Newman, a leading historian of the conspiracy.

• By Jack Denton