Out of more than 900 applicants, 15 were chosen to compete in three rounds, including “Tight Squeeze” and “Under Duress.”

Scholars have identified the end of Reconstruction's revolutionary agenda as Republicans' failure to pass Henry Cabot Lodge's 1890 election bill and Henry Blair's bill addressing illiteracy. But le...

A Johnson County judge recently ordered the State Historical Society of Iowa to reopen its Iowa City branch after a yearlong legal battle.

From vast grids to winding suburbs, Americans have spent two centuries remaking the landscape around property.

IN-PERSON REGISTRATION IS SOLD OUT. ZOOM REGISTRATION IS STILL OPEN. Historic Deerfield, with support from the Massachusetts Historical Society, is hosting a one-day conference: “Revisiting King Phili...

Friedman was in her early 20s when she landed her first position as an editorial assistant at NPR. She became an editor and reporter, and a co-creator of the annual Books We Love reading guide.

Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad

The study of history at UK universities appears to be under existential threat. Should anyone care?

The Register of British Slave-traders compiles and presents information on all known slave-traders in Britain who invested in the trafficking of captive Africans from 1563 to 1807.

How a generation of pioneers and their historians knowingly hid the violent history of Indigenous dispossession in the Pacific Northwest   The small, mostly...

Under a state law passed in 2025, 90 names are up for replacement. Only two have been officially changed so far.

AI systems are increasingly capable of contributing to mathematical research. In research practice, frontier-model reasoning is a limited resource, and expert mathematical review is even more sharply ...

The National Geodetic Survey has spent years building a replacement for the reference system that fixes every published position in the country. New geodetic-control submissions into the old system st...

It is never fun to watch friends argue. Generative AI has created multiple fractures across our universities and the community of historians. The stakes are high and we are all dealing with the rep…

Earth will breach a long-standing target before the end of the decade, report says.

Map the college curriculum across 32.9 million syllabi

‘None of us is in the exact same situation.’

Nevada-based Kingsbarn Realty Capital seeks to acquire land to construct private road to development outside park

Meet the Authors: 2026's Best Books on the Founding Era

Cherokee Nation banned hyperscale data centers on tribal and trust lands following a task force review that raised concerns over energy, water, infrastructure and cultural resources.

Hayden L. Nelson is a Gale Scholar and research historian at the Minnesota Historical Society. He earned his PhD in history in 2025 from the University of Kansas, specializing in environmental and Ind...

The geometric earthwork structures, carved into the ground with embankments and ditches, are in some cases more than 2,500 years old, researchers said.

A historian working across 100+ archives on how HTR and AI agents surface documents no catalogue indexes — and why he now reads more manuscripts, not fewer.

The world’s leading prize for a work of history written or translated into English, the Cundill History Prize today announced its 2026 longlist of 15 books, chosen from almost 400 submissions from acr...

Amid mounting tensions between white settlers and the Shoshone, Union soldiers killed an estimated 250 to 500 Shoshone. Today, the Indigenous nation is working to bring "nature back into balance"

President Trump has ordered the Smithsonian Institution to place signs outside the Washington, DC, museum warning of “inaccurate information” within.