With a curriculum that includes slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, two world wars and the Civil Rights Movement, American history teachers are used to venturing into emotionally charged subjects.

History lessons are being wiped from the internet, and California is retreating from ethnic studies, as education swings away from curriculums that are seen as too progressive. By Dana Goldstein In ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Armed groups hold a rally in front of a closed Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas,on January 17, 2021 during a nationwide ...

The pendulum will swing back. It is a phrase invoked repeatedly, with variation, since Donald Trump’s reelection last November. Cable news anchor Chris Cuomo, Senator Angus King, and pollster Nate ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Kathryn Cramer Brownell, professor of history and director of the Center for American Political History and Technology within the College of Liberal Arts at Purdue University, ...

On Sept. 2, a rarity will arrive in bookstores: a volume that manages to bridge the divides of today’s highly polarized politics. That book is the Almanac of American Politics. An updated version of ...

People are more satisfied with the direction of the country than at any point in recent history, the latest feather in President Donald Trump's hat. On the edge of majority support for weeks, the ...

Quentin Skinner and the contested history of liberty. Over a long career, Skinner has sought to reclaim the idea of republican liberty for the modern age. But his work also raises the question: free ...

I’m writing to you not as a political opponent, but as a historian who’s spent a lifetime studying what happens when democracies flirt with strongmen and otherwise decent people convince themselves ...

Sportswriter Howard Bryant talks about the politics of this year's Super Bowl and other times politics have played a role in the league's recent history. So Eric and Leila referenced a political ...

In ancient Greece, theater served as political discourse—and in fact, attending theatrical performances was considered a civic duty. Sophocles’ “Antigone” was a rallying cry against state authority: ...

Punishment by tar and feather of Thomas Ditson, who purchased a gun from a British soldier in Boston in March 1775. Interim Archives/Getty Images Others similarly weighed in. Whoopi Goldberg on “The ...