The AHA endorses the Smithsonian Integrity and Historical Independence Act of 2026, introduced by Reps. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01), Jonathan Jackson (IL-01), and Kweisi Mfume (MD-07) in response to ong...

Letters: Readers respond to William Pettigrew’s article about the lasting significance of the slave trade to Britain’s politics, economy, institutions and culture

Cato filed an amicus brief arguing that the Fourth Circuit should reverse the district court’s decision, which, if allowed to stand, will quash many legitimate retaliation claims, encourage government mischief, and threaten the “great bulwark of liberty” that is freedom of speech.

A lawsuit claims the Waukesha County Sheriff’s Office used the cameras in retaliation against the vet for exercising his First Amendment right.

Attacks on librarians, forced storytime cancellations and book bans are threatening the stability of public libraries

Today, most states already allow autonomous trucks to be tested and deployed on public roads, but California has by far the most onerous regulations.

Supporting Foreign Scholars Historical work is best done in a context of free exchange across the globe. Current conditions affecting foreign scholars and international travel can inhibit that free ex...

The 2026 Texas Conference on Introductory History Courses will take place Friday, September 25 and Saturday, September 26 at St. Edwards University in Austin.

The contractor on the project has predicted more than $300 million of the project will come from public funds.

Politicians can lecture people to lower their expectations, or they can stop pursuing inflationary policies that everything more expensive.

President Trump says Smithsonian exhibits are anti-white and dishonest. Museum leaders react to Trump's order that signage be placed outside a museum that "corrects inaccurate information."

As someone should have explained to him by now, that's not how it works.

States looking to craft mileage-based programs need to consider factors that raise collection costs and make a program less viable.

A new proposal from the Office of Management and Budget would centralize review of all federal scientific, research and other grantmaking, and would require that all discretionary grants “demonstrably advance the President’s policy priorities” and not “promote anti-American values,” an elastic term.

The pushback on the White House’s report is heartening, but it might not help prevent the Trump administration’s next moves.

Jenny Racicot, a 41-year-old Maine woman who used to date Platner, says the Maine Senate candidate sexually assaulted her in 2021.

Publishing Off the Tenure Track AHA Online Friday, July 17, 11 a.m. ET In this roundtable, historians who work in a variety of roles off the tenure track will discuss their experiences conducting rese...

Pulitzer Prize-winning Yale historian David Blight joins MS NOW's Lawrence O'Donnell after Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued a rare concurrence directly challenging Justice Clarence Thomas's interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment. Blight argues that the dissenting justices bring "a political and racial ideology in search of a history that's not there," explaining why he believes the historical record of Reconstruction contradicts their reading of birthright citizenship.

Sky CEO Dana Strong said the deal was a "defining moment" in British broadcasting.

This report maps the scope of local governments' dependence on fines and forfeitures to fund basic operations and why decades of reform efforts have fallen short.