Activism
Activism
TD Interview
John Leguizamo: Decolonizing Hispanic History Onscreen
Sep 26, 2024 From Aztecs and Incans to United Farm Workers and Young Lords, the actor tells ‘the untold history of Latinos’ in a new documentary series.
Education
Middle School National History Scores Fall
May 4, 2023 Middle school national history scores continue to fall, while civics scores drop for first time.
Courts & Law
Why Do We Care So Much About the Supreme Court?
Feb 9, 2023 It is not a new phenomenon. Americans have always cared passionately about the Supreme Court.
Opinion
This MLK Day, Let’s Learn the Right Lessons From History
Jan 16, 2023 Dr. King was a giant, but history is also made by ordinary people standing up for what’s right. That takes all of us.
Politics
How the West Was Won With Mussolini
Dec 22, 2022 Between fake news, amnesia and removal, the real picture of Italian Fascism under Mussolini can never emerge.
TD Interview
Ken Burns’ Other Lens
Dec 16, 2022 America’s most famous visual storyteller shifts gears in a new book.2023 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award: Third Place, Headline
Politics
Why Doesn’t the Cherokee Nation Have a Delegate to Congress?
Dec 15, 2022 In 2022, the Cherokee Nation is asking for Congress to seat its delegate, as the Treaty of 1835 requires.
Race
Genetics and Racial Mythmaking
Dec 12, 2022 As its findings are twisted to support racial violence, genetics is a field at the crossroads.
Music
Make the Blues America’s National Anthem
Dec 2, 2022 The blues is America’s music — and who likes the “Star-Spangled Banner” anyway?
The Trumps Had No Right to Visit the Taj Mahal
Feb 25, 2020 Why should a known islamophobe be allowed to visit one of the most magnificent products of Indo-Muslim architecture?