Throughout his career, historian Carter G. Woodson, AB’1908, AM’1908, worked to change how Americans thought about Black history. The University of Chicago alum began that mission when, in February ...

It’s that time of year again: trees losing leaves as the nights grow longer and chillier, the holidays lying sleepily just around the corner as the seductively-sweet scent of pumpkin spice fills the ...

Ruth Handler, who co-founded Mattel with her husband, Elliot Handler, and Harold Matson in 1945, noticed her daughter, Barbara, playing with paper dolls and dreaming about what kind of woman she would ...

Can you name the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the earth? Or which ancient queen married two of her brothers? How about this one: Do you know the artist who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?

RESTORING TRUTH IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order restoring truth and sanity to American history by revitalizing key cultural institutions and reversing ...

Today, I am very honored to recognize February 2025 as National Black History Month. Every year, National Black History Month is an occasion to celebrate the contributions of so many black American ...

Whether we’re exchanging locks of hair or bright plastic beads, humans have been finding ways to honor our friends for millennia. Mariale and Paula Nuñez, sisters from Peru, show off their friendship ...

We speak with Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley, author of the new book Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future, which examines the global rise of authoritarianism ...

Over the summer of 1956 a small but illustrious group gathered at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire; it included Claude Shannon, the begetter of information theory, and Herb Simon, the only person ...

All aboard this lightspeed tour of the history of the Jedi Order, the peacekeepers of the galaxy. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Asked what he thought of Western civilisation, Mahatma Gandhi is said to have quipped that such a thing “would be a good idea”. (The West, he suggested, was not so enlightened.) But as Josephine Quinn ...