Current Events that Relate to History

Relatives of voting-rights activists warn that the recent Callais v. Louisiana decision risks undoing hard-fought civil-rights victories.

Story of Bernie Goetz subway shooting and NYC 1980s fear, racial tension, vigilante justice legacy, and ongoing debate over crime and justice.

A new book explains how the US came to rely on economic warfare, but stops short of a complete assessment of its devastating consequences.

When Bernie Sanders was mayor of Burlington, the spirit of socialism showed up in everything from snowplows to poetry.

H.W. Brands on the early career of our first president.

By invoking the American Revolution, 20th-century anticolonial figures connected their project with the movement for civil rights in the United States.

Voting, a right not initially enshrined in the Constitution, has been secured, revoked, and contested since the nation's founding era.