Tag: History

View of Delft by Johannes Vermeer, 1754. (Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images)

A lost art

Diane Scharper · April 10, 2026 5:10 am

Continental Commodore Esek Hopkins has arrived in New London Harbor with his fleet and captured prizes. He urges Washington to send him 200 seamen to help man his ships. (public domain.)

On This Day: Urgent request for seamen for the Continental Army is sent out as Washington nears New York

Salena Zito · April 8, 2026 10:00 am

The symbol of the United Nations is displayed outside the Secretariat Building, Feb. 28, 2022, at United Nations Headquarters. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

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UN resolution about slave trade is an effort to demonize white people

Christopher Tremoglie · April 2, 2026 10:30 am

Leon Trotsky, a Russian revolutionary and rival of Joseph Stalin, assassinated in 1940.

Trotsky’s fatal conceit

Carson Becker · March 27, 2026 4:44 am

Engraving from 1881 commemorating President George Washington's first cabinet.

What boys lose when they stop studying history

Samuel J. Abrams · March 24, 2026 5:00 pm

A person plays Super Mario Bros. at the Montreal International Gaming Summit in Quebec in 2025. (Andrej Ivanov/AFP via Getty Images)

The origin story of Nintendo

Alexander Kaplan · March 20, 2026 4:44 am

The statue of wartime prime minister Winston Churchill is seen next to the Big Ben tower of Houses of Parliament, right, at sunrise in London, Monday, Oct. 24, 2022.

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The United Kingdom trades Winston Churchill for a squirrel

Ani Chkhikvadze · March 13, 2026 2:42 pm

National Capitol building in Havana, Cuba. (Eliana Aponte/AP)

Founders fetish

Andrew Fagal · March 13, 2026 6:12 am

Mao Zedong in 1966. (Apic/Getty Images)

How China turned red

Sean Durns · March 13, 2026 6:07 am

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London)

The Kraken waketh

Varad Mehta · March 13, 2026 6:00 am

First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, left, and President John F. Kennedy, right, welcome Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his wife Farah Pahlavi to the White House in Washington, D.C., April 11, 1962. (Universal History Archive / Universal Images Group / Getty Images)

In Iran, heavy is the head that wears the crown

Sean Durns · March 12, 2026 5:00 pm

The sun sets behind a plume of smoke rising after a U.S.-Israeli military strike in Tehran, Iran.

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Transform Ruhollah Khomeini’s tomb into a museum on regime crimes

Michael Rubin · March 8, 2026 6:00 am