Proposed changes to Texas curriculum standards impede instructors’ ability to teach “accurate history,” some…

Interior Department Secretary Ryan Zinke is a man heavy with contradictions and light of knowledge. He is charged…

A famous act of political violence is often used to illustrate the utter collapse of civic norms in the run-up to…

Archeologists say that the remains of around 95 people recently discovered on a Texas construction site almost…

A new ad from the Republican National Congressional Committee warns of a “civil war” in the Democratic Party,…

Happy Halloween.

HOLY HELL.

It’s 1862, and Elle Burns is not what she seems. Ostensibly a slave working in a Confederate senator’s Richmond…

Here’s your annual reminder that there are still a handful of states in America that celebrate the former existence…

North Carolina rep. Larry Pittman was evidently not in great spirits yesterday after his unconstitutional bill to…

Harriet Tubman was born into slavery in Maryland in the early 1820s. She escaped and became one of our nation’s most…

Governor Matt Bevin is not afraid to say what unhinged, lightly treasonous fear mongers are thinking, and he said it…

Last week, after a suicide attack, Jordan sealed its borders in an effort to heighten security measures. But now…

In Mississippi, Governor Phil Bryant has declared April as Confederate Heritage Month, and the last Monday in April…

Today is Juneteenth.

Thanks to the astronomically famous 1959 movie, Ben-Hur is known mostly for its sick-ass chariot race (and the…

Grey sludge some are calling wine was drudged up from a US Civil War shipwreck. The wine was found 4 years ago on…

Last month, New York Times bestselling author Karen Abbott published a nonfiction book called Liar, Temptress,…

Maybe this brief history of Mother’s Day (which owes itself to the Civil War) will inspire those giftless…

Most of us remember Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to receive a medical degree in the U.S. I named my first…