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Protester opposing gay marriage in Boston, 2007. The sign compares gay rights in the U.S. to Nazi, Germany.

Gays, Nazis, and the GOP

100 and 10 US dollars banknotes.

Inflation — Fighting the Last War

Perry speaking at the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland.

Governor Perry’s Vice-Presidential Mistake

A girl stands amid the graves of 70 children on the outskirts of Dadaab. The long desert journey to the relief camps has claimed many lives.

Famine Strikes Again. Will America Respond?

The United Nations Office at Geneva (Switzerland) is the second biggest UN centre, after the United Nations Headquarters (New York City).

The U.N. may be dysfunctional, but it’s the kind of dysfunction that its founders intended

War News from Mexico (1848).

“Hostilities” and War Powers: Let’s Choose the Constitution

Visitors stroll the first section of the High Line Park, over the 18th Street crossing. Frank Gehry's IAC building is in the background.

The High Line: It’s About the Real Estate

The Prairie Dog is an anti-Jefferson satire, relating to Jefferson's covert negotiations for the purchase of West Florida from Spain in 1804.

Not American Enough? This Political Slur Has a Long History

Lydia Vargo and Teamster with delivery wagon in Toledo, Ohio c. 1920.

The National Park Service Explores the History of Farm Labor in America

Contrabands—fugitive slaves—cooks, laundresses, laborers, teamsters, railroad repair crews—fled to the Union Army, but were not officially freed until 1863 by the Emancipation Proclamation.

In Commemorating the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War, the Central Role of Slavery Must Not Be Forgotten

“Bombardment of Fort Sumter by the batteries of the Confederate states,” 1861.

The Civil War: Losing the War, Winning the History

11/20/2014: Best in History Online: BackStory

12/8/2014: Best in History Online: The Appendix

Marina Silva (PSB)

10/21/2014: Top Ten Origins: Brazil's Presidential Elections

"Mauerspecht" [Wall Pecker] 1989

“Remember, Remember the 9th of November”: The Fall of the Berlin Wall

Gemini 4 astronaut Ed White in open space, 1965.

Human Spaceflight Began Fifty Years Ago This Month, But Not Much Has Happened Lately

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Barry (DDG 52) launches a Tomahawk missile in support of Operation Odyssey Dawn on March 19, 2011.

What Can Air Power Achieve? From Rolling Thunder to Odyssey Dawn

Demonstrators in steadily falling snow outside of the Wisconsin Capitol building.

Wisconsin: A History of Leading the Nation for Better or Worse

Philippoteaux - Lamartine in front of the Town Hall of Paris rejects the red flag.

The Challenges of 1848 Reprised in the Middle East Today

Members of the Free Officers welcomed by crowds in Cairo in January 1953.

The Egyptian Middle Class Is Disgruntled. Again.

Headline in The Philadelphia Inquirer of November 16, 1919, reporting the first use of cloture by the United States Senate.

The Founders Cared about the Majority Principle

Vegetables from ecological farming.

Bringing Democrats and Republicans Together over Food

Isaac W. Williams (front) in a file photo from the 1960s.

Still Fighting the Civil War in South Carolina

William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States.

Zealous Moderates: Barack Obama and William Howard Taft

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