Eighty-three years after the Vel' d'Hiv roundup, historians who emphasize the xenophobic rather than antisemitic nature of ...

The post David Brooks faces the truth of US history — and runs away appeared first on Salon.com. The photo gained renewed ...

The Help by Kathryn Stockett tells the story of three women's lives in Jackson, Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement ...

While flying to a national education conference several years ago, I received a call that would deepen my commitment to the ...

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Family Recipe Showdown host Edgar "Dook" Chase IV is a fourth-generation restaurateur and the grandson of Leah Chase, the ...

Both major Tamil communities in Sri Lanka — the Jaffna Tamils (settled via medieval South Indian invasions) and Plantation ...

Reactions ranged from fierce criticism to relief after the university reached a settlement over allegations that it failed to ...

If the Three-Fifths Compromise in U.S. history fraction the worth of persons of color, then the one-tenth and greater illegal disparities in generational wealth, which violate legally enforceable ...

Davis took over the presidency after former President Jay Hartzell’s sudden departure. Davis was hired straight out of Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office in 2018, after three years of working beside ...

No longer, alas. Today the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rules Hong Kong like it rules the mainland, with the partial ...

A new biography of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, born in Concord in 1890, provides evidence that Flynn, a celebrated and maligned labor and political leader for much of the 20th century, fits the bill.  A ...