Tag: History

By any criteria, the United Kingdom faces a serious economic and social crisis, one that will deepen without big shifts in policy. Yet there is little sense of this crisis ...

The official curriculum for a new Advanced Placement course on African American studies downplays some components that drew criticism from conservatives including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who had threatened to ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa—Five centuries ago, South Africa’s original inhabitants, the Indigenous Khoi and San people, won a great military victory against Portuguese explorers in the Battle of Salt River, ...

Veteran actor Josh Pais has a surprising connection to some of the world’s most renowned scientists. Pais’ father was Dutch-born physicist, professor and writer Abraham Pais, who survived the Holocaust ...

America’s first president George Washington addressed the assembled Congress with the first State of the Union on this day in history, Jan. 8, 1790. Washington’s address took place at Federal Hall in ...

Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s three-day state visit to South Korea earlier this month began with a 21-gun salute and ended on a sunny note. Phuc and his South Korean ...

For many within Chile and in its diaspora, the Chilean imagination is defined by memory: how it is created, how it is disappeared, and how it is passionately rekindled. This ...

When Chinese recall Jiang Zemin, who stepped down as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 2002, they sometimes laugh about a well-known episode in 2000 when he ...

At a time when many people feel helpless against the larger forces of war, fascism, and injustice, it feels good to see a civilian court take down a monster. Argentina, ...

Spain’s socialist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has passed a new “Democratic Memory” law, which he says will help “settle Spanish democracy’s debt to its past” by bringing “justice, reparation and ...