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Scientists Think They've Solved the Century-Old Mystery of Why a Navy Warship Suddenly Sank Off New York

The USS San Diego was sailing to New York on July 19, 1918, when an external explosion near the engine room shook the armored cruiser. Within minutes, the 500-foot warship began to capsize.

Putin’s Stasi ID Is Found in German Archive

Long before he was president of Russia, Vladimir Putin worked as a K.G.B. officer in Dresden in the former East Germany and had access to Germany’s dreaded secret police.

Isabel Wilkerson on Michelle Obama’s ‘Becoming’ and the Great Migration

The former first lady’s long-awaited new memoir recounts with insight, candor and wit her family’s trajectory from the Jim Crow South to Chicago’s South Side and her own improbable journey from there to the White House.

A fanatic and 'Negro-stealer’: One of the ugliest House speaker fights in history

In 1859, the House went to war over Rep. John Sherman’s leadership bid.

Ohio Lawmakers seek tax dollars to document 400 years of African American history

The two year study would delve into the depths of African American history and provide insight into their accomplishments and tribulations.

The Striking Similarities Between Why Trump’s and Nixon’s Personal Lawyers Were Sent to Prison

Herbert W. Kalmbach, President Richard Nixon’s personal lawyer, received a prison sentence on June 17, 1974, exactly two years after the Watergate break-in, for funneling hush money to Watergate defendants.

U.S. Returns Bells Taken as War Booty From Philippines in 1901

American troops took the three church bells after avenging a deadly attack on their fellow soldiers, and the seizure has complicated ties with the Philippines since.

Library of Congress Adds More Classics to National Film Registry

"Brokeback Mountain," "The Shining," "The Lady From Shanghai" are among selections.

Report discloses history of slavery and racism at Southern Seminary

The document, commissioned by President R. Albert Mohler Jr., laments "a sinful absence of historical curiosity."

Columbia student goes on racist tirade at fellow students

A Columbia University student shouted that “white people are the best thing that ever happened to the world” on Sunday evening during a racist tirade in front of students of color, who caught the rant on video.

Slave Bible From The 1800s Omitted Key Passages That Could Incite Rebellion

"About 90 percent of the Old Testament is missing [and] 50 percent of the New Testament is missing."

A New Book About Mussolini Is Provoking a Debate Over His Legacy

Antonio Scurati, the author of “M,” sees his book as an anti-fascist history lesson disguised as a novel. Others disagree.

A Short History of Political Red Faces Over Workers Without Green Cards

The news that a New Jersey golf course owned by President Trump had been employing undocumented immigrants as housekeepers was far from the first such revelation about a prominent public official.

Baghdad’s Fortified Green Zone Opens to Public After 15 Years

The neighborhood, known as the Green Zone, had been cordoned off by the American military in 2003 to protect it from bombings during the war.

What this graph shows about women's suffrage

And why it's so shocking. 

5 things to know about Guantanamo Bay on its 115th birthday

by Jana Lipman

There’s much more to this naval base than its use as an offshore prison.

Penn used bodies of black people as teaching tools in the 1800s, student research reveals

The more the students dug into the archives the more ties they found between Penn and slavery. 

North Dakota governor wants to spend $50 million to build Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library

It’s "North Dakota’s Mount Rushmore.”

Silent Sam Protesters at Chapel Hill Embrace a New Tactic: a ‘Grade Strike’

Just as the fall semester is set to close, activists say, at least 79 teaching assistants and instructors have joined a rare “grade strike,” pledging to withhold more than 2,000 final grades unless the university meets their conditions.

A Former Plantation Begins To Tell A Fuller Story Of Slavery In America

For the first time in its 225-year history, the site has begun telling the stories of the African-American men and women who were enslaved there, and consulting with their descendants.