Former Florida International University professor and historian Marvin Dunn speaks to attendees about the Rosewood Massacre during a “Black History Learning Tree” event at FIU on Tuesday, April 1, ...

Eminent historian, academic and public intellectual K.N. Panikkar, widely regarded as one of India’s foremost scholars of modern history, passed away in Thiruvananthapuram on Monday (March 9, 2026).

History often appears fixed and unchanging, but new discoveries regularly reshape how the past is understood. Archaeological evidence and improved scientific methods have challenged assumptions that ...

Ukrainian and Russian negotiators described the Geneva peace talks as "difficult" and "complex work." Volodymyr Zelenskyy cut to the chase: "historical shit." The Ukrainian president posted his take ...

Harold Holzer, an expert on Abraham Lincoln, is taking over the role of borough historian. He is looking ahead to some significant milestones this year. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Friday.

(RNS) — This February marks the 50th anniversary of the national commemoration of Black History Month, proclaimed by President Gerald Ford in 1976 as part of the bicentennial celebrations. But Black ...

“If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated,” wrote Carter G. Woodson in a ...

For decades, historians of the Middle East have navigated the scholarly politics of the “Palestine Exception”—an unspoken expectation that the right to practice history without ideological constraint ...

I recently interviewed Jarvis R. Givens, a professor of education and African and African American studies at Harvard University. His new book, I’ll Make Me a World: The 100-Year Journey of Black ...

Throughout his career, historian Carter G. Woodson, AB’1908, AM’1908, worked to change how Americans thought about Black history. The University of Chicago alum began that mission when, in February ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 2 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump has targeted U.S. cultural and historical institutions - from museums to monuments to national parks - to remove what he calls "anti-American" ...

We keep hearing that these are unprecedented times for science: scientific skeptics running federal agencies, growing mistrust of vaccines, and messaging from the highest levels of government that ...