Browsing: History

Baseball, perhaps more than any other sport, competes with its own deep mythology. So many of its highlights are in black and white, and so many…

What’s the first thing you notice when you step into a museum? Is it the long-faded colors of ancient artifacts from all around the world or…

The last outbreak of cholera in Britain was in 1866; in the United States there has not been an outbreak since 1911.And yet today people are…

“The East End of London is the far right’s prime target – the essence of everything they don’t like. They feel if they can march through…

“They weren’t buddies,” author El-Hai tells the BBC. “But they formed a connection, and Kelley recognised that they shared certain personality traits.” As well as acknowledging…

On 26 October, podcasters, professors, journalists and ordinary citizens will gather on the steps of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History for a teach-in in…

new video loaded: Nikole Hannah-Jones Knows Why History Feels DangerousThe creator of The 1619 Project joins Wesley Morris to talk about her work and the political…

It’s Black History Month in the UK, and it feels like it’s time for a rethink. Over the years, an event that started out as a…

Fossilisation is rare. Most living things disappear without trace, recycled back into planet Earth.But in some environments the DNA from living things binds to the soil…

Friedrich Engels stands accused of exaggerating, or perhaps taking “creative liberties”, with just how segregated Manchester was in the mid-19th century, a study has found.The great…