Current Events that Relate to History

The long history of promising an “efficient” federal government.

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

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

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

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

In 1841, John Tyler said he was the president. The Constitution said he wasn’t. What happened next?

In 1880, the daughter of a Welsh politician turned to fiction to expose perspectives missing from the official record, upending histories for generations to come.

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.

Between 1929 and 1939 approximately half a million Mexicans left the United States. Many of the departing families included American-born children to whom Mexico, not the United States, was the foreign land.

The pages of 1950s lifestyle magazines offer a glimpse of a time when childhood vaccines were anything but controversial.