Western civilization arose in Greece in the 8th century BC, when some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate ...

I’ve always been intrigued by history, geography, and civics. Of course, I used to teach this stuff. While not everyone feels similarly, I suspect a lot more students would share my enthusiasm if they ...

Players Max Blatter and James Harris III rehearse Tim and Allen: A Soldier’s Choice at the Missouri History Museum. Teens Make History (TMH) is an apprenticeship at the Missouri Historical Society ...

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Call it "the big reveal." Vice President Kamala Harris in the last seven days, emerging, blasting out from behind the curtain of the Biden presidency onto a stage of her own. "There's been kind of a ...

Vice President Kamala Harris will have to defy history in more ways than one to win the White House this fall. Harris could make history as the first woman—and woman of color—to occupy the Oval Office ...

Howard Zinn in 2002 in a class at Chicago’s Dr. Pedro Abizu Campos Puerto Rican High School. Photo by Judy Hoffman (production still from You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train). By signing up, you ...

Ketanji Brown Jackson could be the first Black woman on the Supreme Court. Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden's Supreme Court nominee, has the potential to make history as the first Black ...

Wes Moore, who is currently America’s lone Black governor, works from a creaky-floored second-story office in the Maryland State House. The building—Georgian brick, shaded by giant trees, in the quiet ...