After the Civil War, conservatives used terrorism, cold-blooded murder, and economic coercion to fight the new state constitution in South Carolina.

The history of ivory-topped piano keys and the invisible human suffering caused by our cultural commodities.

There’s a long history of politicians targeting student protesters — and of campus leaders abetting those efforts.

Jimmy Carter is known for his defense of human rights worldwide. But in 1979, he threatened to deport thousands of Iranian student protesters.

Rethinking the job of history — and the American Historical Association — after the veto of the Gaza “scholasticide” resolution.

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

In 1973, the Christmas Bird Count formed the basis for a press freedom case that centered on the impacts of DDT.

The Northeast caught fire this fall, in a way that recalls its past. History has some lessons about how to manage the region’s fire seasons to come.

Gladiator and Gladiator II have little to do with the Roman past. But they have a great deal to do with the American present.

In 1984, the U.S. rejected the International Court of Justice’s jurisdiction, revealing its tendency to ignore international rules it sees as unfavorable — even when it helped write them.

The U.S. Justice Department recently hauled Google into court for violating an 1890 federal law designed to forestall the unjust consolidation of economic power. Known today as the Sherman Act ...

For every moment of historical significance, there is a figure — often hidden — who fed the figures we do remember.