The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) on Wednesday criticized the White House’s Saving America’s Story report, ...

Sojourner Truth, the African American abolitionist, women's rights advocate and social activist revered to this day for her presentation on racial inequalities, delivered her famous "Ain't I a Woman?" ...

Boris Lurie, "In Concentration Camp" (1971), oil on canvas, 50 1⁄4 x 49 1⁄4 inches (all images courtesy the Boris Lurie Art Foundation) Born in St. Petersburg in 1924, Boris Lurie grew up in Latvia.

History textbooks often present the past as a neat timeline of wars, discoveries, and political changes. But hidden between these major events are countless bizarre, shocking, and downright ...

Many students of history ask, “What is a practical application of history?” Unfortunately, there is no simple answer because history is not simply a recording of facts and events; nor is it merely a ...

Publishers are plain scared. No that’s unfair. They are terrified. In our bizarre age of disrupters and those who prefer to ‘repurpose’ inconvenient truths like history, some readers might think that ...

Professor Eleanor Bourke (left), chair of Yoo Rrook Justice Commission, the first formal truth-telling process into injustices experienced by First Peoples in Victoria, at the smoking ceremony at its ...

National Guard troops block off Beale Street as civil rights marchers wearing placards reading, “I Am a Man” pass by on March 29, 1968. (Bettmann / Getty Images) By signing up, you confirm that you ...