“September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression.” Ben Bernanke, then the chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, made this remarkable claim ...

There's only so much you can fit into a history book, museum or gallery. Often, they're specially curated to tell a specific story about the major turning points that brought us to where we are today.

Soldiers in Revolutionary War uniforms participate in a military parade to commemorate the U.S. Army's 250th Birthday in Washington June 14, 2025. Credit: OSV News photo/Carlos Barria, Reuters. What ...

A group of archaeologists and paleontologists noticed the women of their field were being forgotten. So they made the Trowelblazers, an archive featuring female achievement in the "digging sciences." ...

Harry Truman, who regards himself as something of an expert on history, last week seemed to have forgotten some of the not-too-distant past. In Springfield, Mo. for the annual reunion of the 35th ...

In 2010, Tian Lei cut a lonely figure in Chinese legal circles. Coming from a background in political science, rather than law, as a young academic he was largely uninterested in the debates then ...