Ancient Rome was teetering. Then a volcano erupted 6,000 miles away ~humanities.history Article 2010 words, published Jun 22 2020 5 votes
The history of the US Army's 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the largest unit of black servicewomen to ever deploy overseas ~humanities.history Article 2559 words, published Jun 17 2020 4 votes
What is owed: If true justice and equality are ever to be achieved in the United States, the country must finally take seriously what it owes Black Americans ~humanities.history Article 8675 words 8 votes
The rape kit’s secret history - This is the story of the woman who forced the police to start treating sexual assault like a crime ~humanities.history Article 8171 words 8 votes
How the coronavirus compares with 100 years of deadly events ~humanities.history Article 40 words 9 votes
The case for reparations: We've had 250 years of slavery, 90 years of Jim Crow, 60 years of separate but equal and 35 years of racist housing policy. Without addressing this, the US can't move on ~humanities.history Article 14 406 words, published Jun 3 2014 32 votes
President? Why not? Says a man at the top. ~humanities.history Article 1577 words, published Sep 25 1999 1 vote
Early warnings: How American journalists reported the rise of Hitler ~humanities.history Article 529 words, published Mar 13 2012 5 votes
How white backlash controls American progress: Backlash dynamics are one of the defining patterns of the country’s history ~humanities.history Article 3263 words 8 votes
The great 5G conspiracy - Part of a series on conspiracy thinking in America Article 5662 words 6 votes
An Oxford professor, an evangelical collector, and a missing gospel of Mark: A scholar claimed that he discovered a first-century gospel fragment, now faces allegations of theft, cover-up, and fraud ~humanities.history Article 8361 words 11 votes
Children growing up after this crisis will use far more oral language after it ends language.oral Article 605 words 10 votes
Charles Coughlin, the 'Radio Priest' who brought fascism to America in the 1930s (1979) ~humanities.history Article 146 words, published Oct 28 1979 7 votes
How Narendra Modi serves the Hindu ideal of Bharat in opposition to secular ideals of India religion Article 2356 words 4 votes
The Muslim world’s question: ‘What happened to us?’ ~humanities.history Article 3066 words, published Jan 25 2020 5 votes
Prohibition was a failed experiment in moral governance ~humanities.history Article 475 words 13 votes
How a Chase Bank chairman helped the deposed shah of Iran enter the US ~humanities.history Article 2552 words, published Dec 29 2019 5 votes
America’s dark history of killing its own troops with cluster munitions ~humanities.history Article 5998 words 8 votes
The 1619 Project by the New York Times ~humanities.history Article 137 words, published Aug 14 2019 4 votes
Vicious bigotry, reluctant acceptance: How Italians became "White" ~humanities.history Article 2219 words 8 votes
How the MIT Media Lab concealed its relationship with Jeffrey Epstein education Article 2669 words 12 votes
This land was our land: The Mississippi Delta's history of Black land theft ~humanities.history Article 7676 words 7 votes
One American import we could do without: hard-right religious conservatism religion Article 802 words 14 votes
How a historian uncovered Ronald Reagan's 1971 racist remarks to Richard Nixon ~humanities.history Article 2517 words 15 votes
Georgia Gilmore, who fed and funded the Montgomery bus boycott ~humanities.history Article 1323 words 5 votes
Inside the radical beliefs of Israel Folau's Truth of Jesus Christ Church, founded by his father Eni religion Article 1402 words 7 votes
A linguist’s case against "socialism": History has made the term vague and unproductive. Should it be retired? linguistics Article 567 words 7 votes
Machine learning is about to revolutionize the study of ancient games ~humanities.history Article 1044 words 8 votes
The ‘undesirable militants’ behind the Nineteenth Amendment ~humanities.history Article 553 words 6 votes
Atomic veterans were silenced for fifty Years. Now, they’re talking. ~humanities.history Article 765 words, published May 27 2019 8 votes
Abolish the priesthood: To save the Church, Catholics must detach themselves from the clerical hierarchy—and take the faith back into their own hands religion theology Article 8092 words 10 votes
LA’s elite on edge as prosecutors pursue more parents in admissions scandal education.higher Article 1446 words 6 votes
Learning my father’s language: I made a vow to teach myself Irish, the language my mother struggled to learn, so that my daughters may learn it too language Article 4495 words 6 votes