A conservative columnist looks to Nazi Germany for lessons that might apply closer to home.

A conservative columnist looks to Nazi Germany for lessons that might apply closer to home.
Learn about the challenges and successes of a prominent advocate for the rights of women and Native Americans.
You are lost! How do you find your way? Reach for your cellphone and turn on GPS! John Huth, author of The Lost Art of Finding Our Way thinks we should allow ourselves to get lost once in a while to create a better connection with our environment. Click on the link within this article to watch a video clip of John Huth’s view on navigation without maps.
Using the example of Italian-Americans, history professor and author Vincent J. Cannato argues that the exchange of cultures and ideas between native-born Americans and immigrants positively influences society.
Read about villages set up to bring perpetrators and survivors of genocide together in reconciliation.
This article explains the ins and outs of the purchase of the Louisiana Territory and why it was significant to the future of the United States.
An entrepreneur applies themes from a hit musical to his career choices.
Sakena Yacoobi’s education gave her the opportunity to live comfortably in the United States, but she felt called to educate girls in her homeland despite daunting challenges. Hear about her heroic choice in her own words.
Read four articles written during the 1930s for a glimpse of how a dictator’s growing power was perceived at the time.
Read about what archaeologists excavating a site in modern-day Turkey have determined.
Click this link to learn about the only known document in which an African-American Union soldier describes a significant Civil War battle.
Boby Duval, a former soccer player who was imprisoned for speaking out against the corrupt Haitian government of ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier, urges the world to remember Duvalier’s crimes and to make sure history does not repeat itself.
Protests against the Vietnam War increased in size and scale from the mid-1960s to early 1970s. Learn why more people started to oppose the war.
In the late 19th century, a group of women were instrumental to the success of the Harvard College Observatory and the discoveries made there.
Archeologists from the University of Massachusetts Boston recently unearthed artifacts that help pinpoint the location of the historic Plymouth settlement.
Though the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, wasn’t ratified until 1920, much of the groundwork for women’s suffrage was laid during the abolitionist movement preceding the Civil War.
Three founding fathers wrote this series of articles to persuade at least nine of the thirteen states to ratify the Constitution.
Read why the United Nations recommends formal apologies and reparations be made to black Americans and why the subject is controversial.
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof draws a parallel between the treatment of Jewish refugees during World War II and that of modern-day Syrian refugees. He laments what he sees as global indifference to the humanitarian crisis in Syria and urges world leaders to act.
Dig into the history of the real-life Macbeth.