I think what interested me was the people who neither died nor left. I was interested in the people who survived and stayed behind. You know, a lot of history focuses, and rightly so, on the million or so people who died. And then also the people who emigrated. I feel as though those stories have been — we know those stories in a sense, and they're terrible, tragic stories.
On this 250th birthday of the United States, the bill that would allow Mother Randall to be compensated is languishing in some congressional committee somewhere. Bills for black reparations for slavery have sat collecting dust for decades, but people convicted for their roles in January 6 came way closer to official government sanctioned redress than anybody in those groups. So, who counts as having been harmed by the state?
As as people thought that they were doing the will of God through violence, well, suddenly there's a sanction for violence that has almost a universal adapter.
Another war in the Middle East. A retreat from the international order. A presidency built on self-dealing and arbitrary power. It's enough to make you think the U.S. is in a steep decline — but Fareed Zakaria thinks otherwise.
It's the most volatile word in the American language. It has been used to harm, to bond, to challenge, to unite, to separate. It's impossible to discuss American history, literature, and culture without it.
Will Rogers was born in 1879 in what is now Oklahoma, to a prominent Cherokee family. He grew up roping cattle, learned to do tricks with a lasso, and eventually turned his cowboy skills into a stage act. But it was his folksy observations about politics and society that made him one of the most beloved figures in America.
For most of human history, drugs have been grown in the land. When the war on drugs was first declared by President Nixon, there was cocaine, marijuana, heroin. Now there's, like, 1,450 new psychoactive substances.
I would say in American society, forward momentum has always been met by retrenchment. Going all the way back to reconstruction after eight years of active effort to create full citizenship for the freed slaves, there came decades after that of retrenchment.
UL's been around for more than 100 years; it started as a way for insurance companies to standardize fire and safety testing as electricity was the new technology spreading into homes.
The fact that it took Galileo to redefine our thinking about motion and intelligent people from Aristotle and onward had thought about how things moved in the world and gotten it totally wrong suggests that motion is not so simple.
Pop culture and conventional history often teach us that violence is the most effective way to produce change. But is that common assumption actually true?
History books say they caused the Black Death — although recent scientific evidence disputes that claim. In an updated episode from 2025, we ask: Is the rat a scapegoat?
Pop culture and conventional history often teach us that violence is the most effective way to produce change. But is that common assumption actually true? Political scientist Erica Chenoweth, who has studied more than 100 years of revolutions and insurrections, says the answer is counterintuitive.
Does power truly flow from the barrel of a gun? Pop culture and conventional history often teach us that violence is the most effective way to produce change. But is that common assumption actually true?
At a certain point, we have to hold ourselves accountable as women and say, "It's barely been 50 years that we can even have a credit card, that we can own property, that we can do things in our own name." to be so eager to give up all of that and to go back into this place of voluntary helplessness and voluntary ignorance in service of a very specific kind of love to me is we just can't allow ourselves to do that.
a 23-year-old Hungarian poet who traded her Budapest life for a kibbutz, then traded the kibbutz for a parachute and a near-certain death sentence--and whose poems, scribbled on scraps of paper in forests near the Hungarian border, became some of the most famous texts in modern Hebrew
Hannah Senesh, a 23-year-old Hungarian poet who traded her Budapest life for a kibbutz, then traded the kibbutz for a parachute and a near-certain death sentence--and whose poems, scribbled on scraps of paper in forests near the Hungarian border, became some of the most famous texts in modern Hebrew.
anybody who knows the Cubans and Cuban history, this, you know, this island nation just off our shores knows that it has, to an unusual degree, a profound nationalist sentiment when it comes to its own sovereignty, its independence, and especially vis-a-vis the United States.
a 23-year-old Hungarian poet who traded her Budapest life for a kibbutz, then traded the kibbutz for a parachute and a near-certain death sentence--and whose poems, scribbled on scraps of paper in forests near the Hungarian border, became some of the most famous texts in modern Hebrew.
The notion of these symmetries all working together and happy harmony and holding hands and the the studios and the streamers and everybody going forth is great. Maybe I'd love that to be case because I want things to survive. But the history doesn't seem to support that.
The revolution against Batista in the 50s and the rise of Fidel Castro, the goal and the promise that they will have this nationalist capitalist um and democratic and socially progressive society.
If you look at history, there's as much danger of an autocrat coming from the far left as from the far right. I believe the far left is as dangerous as the far right. It's the extremes that present a threat to society.
Like these are issues that have been with scouting almost since the beginning and that is what we're going to get into today. Like how these questions and controversies over race and gender have shaped the world of scouting back in the day and now.
So they left the US in search of another slave society where they could continue their way of life with white supremacy as the social order and slavery as the economic system.
For a revolutionary regime whose political ideology is premised on martyrdom, the central question is whether these assassinations will ultimately extinguish the ideology or help revive it.
So we know that there were otters in Singapore sometime before the mid 20th century. But then Singapore started to change. It modernized, it started to industrialize, and all of a sudden the waterways got filthy.
Ironically, it's a huge success of the civil rights movement. Civil rights activists protested against blackface and tried really hard to strip it from the school curriculums and everyday performances where it was really common currency. And by doing so, they turned blackface into something that was culturally taboo. And so it became so taboo, in fact, that the history of it is no longer taught.
Historians right now are in somewhat of a culture war in that it is our patriotic duty as American citizens and as patriots to help make sure that the American public has access to our history in all of its complexity.
It is our patriotic duty as American citizens and as patriots to help make sure that the American public has access to our history in all of its complexity. And the truth is, is that you can't understand the victories and the triumphs without understanding how far Americans had to push.
The history of technological progress and its accompanying regulatory frameworks teach us that our future with AI and robotics won't only be decided by these large, sweeping philosophical discussions, but through practicality, through the answering of thousands of practical questions that arise from the simple minutia of sharing everyday life.
Mortal danger was actually, I think, a core part of the appeal of the sport in those early days. These guys were gladiators. They were risking their life every time they got in a car.
