Tag: History

Vice President George Bush (right) chats with Houston Astros coach Yogi Berra (left) and pitcher Nolan Ryan in the dugout before the Astros-Pittsburgh Pirates game. Bush attended the game and threw out the opening pitch.

Magazine - Life & Arts

Yogi Berra and the presidency

Tevi Troy · September 25, 2020 3:00 am

Magazine - Life & Arts

Who were the real Vikings?

Scott Beauchamp · September 25, 2020 3:00 am

Kids protest climate change.

No, the United States is not systemically racist

Stephen Moore · September 25, 2020 3:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Ginsburg’s death is not an argument for Supreme Court age limits

Laura Williamson · September 22, 2020 8:58 pm

People gather at the Supreme Court on the morning after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 87, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020 in Washington.

Ginsburg will lie in state in Capitol on Friday — a first for women

Susan Ferrechio · September 21, 2020 4:42 pm

Beltway Confidential

Trump is incapable of telling America’s story of racial redemption

Kevin Carroll · September 18, 2020 7:13 pm

Magazine - Life & Arts

Germany’s forgotten revolution

Thomas Meaney · September 18, 2020 3:00 am

Magazine - Features

Thank you for your service comedy

Peter Tonguette · September 18, 2020 3:00 am

Red paint covers a statue of Christopher Columbus on Monday, Oct. 14, 2019, in Providence, R.I., after it was vandalized on the day named to honor him as one of the first Europeans to reach the New World.

Beltway Confidential

We can (and should) celebrate Columbus Day

David Freddoso · September 18, 2020 3:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Winston Groom, historian and author of Forrest Gump, lived large

Quin Hillyer · September 18, 2020 12:05 am

Protester Andie Baker, of Richmond, holds a US flag in front of the graffiti-covered statue of Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart after two previous nights of unrest due to the death of George Lloyd Sunday, May 31, 2020, in Richmond, Va. Gov. Ralph Northam issued a curfew for this evening.

Trump demands ‘patriotic education’ in classrooms

Rob Crilly · September 17, 2020 6:41 pm

Health historian finds similarities between COVID-19 pandemic and 1918 pandemic

Washington Examiner · September 9, 2020 9:00 pm