Scratching the Record by Asheesh Kapur Siddique On the long history of governments attempting to restrict access to documents about their inner workings.

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

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

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.

Revisiting the Agrarian-Distributists and their fabrication of an American past.

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

Pence and Sessions are but two prominent Americans in and out of politics today who continue refueling a centuries-old controversy over the role of religion in American life.

When you dig beyond all purpose, digging becomes the purpose.

My new book, A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging centers on the story of the 2020 fire that destroyed the largest refugee camp in Europe on the Greek island of Lesvos, and the six ...

The war in Ukraine and escalating tensions between the PRC and Taiwan are just two examples of the resurgent danger of nuclear war. A revived movement for true international governance is needed ...

A 1968 disruption of an ROTC ceremony at Alfred University in 1968 involved just 15 students and 2 faculty. It won't be remembered with Berkeley or Columbia in the annals of student protest, but ...