Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit"
The historical legacy of singer Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit,” her lament about the lynchings of African Americans, i…
The historical legacy of singer Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit,” her lament about the lynchings of African Americans, i…
Atlantic Staff Writer David Frum - speaking from Woodrow Wilson’s Washington, D.C., home - reconsidered the 28th preside…
President Ronald Reagan’s 1982 address to the British Parliament was the topic of a class taught by University of Kansas…
Jason Stacy and Matthew Ellington, co-authors of Fabric of a Nation: A History with Skills and Sources, for the APĀ® US H…
Bestselling author David Grann talked about a mutiny aboard the British naval ship The Wager off the coast of South Amer…
In the 1950s, the Senate explored whether communists had infiltrated the State Department, the Army, and other federal a…
On its 15th anniversary in 1985, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency created a twenty-minute film documenting the r…
Martin Luther King III commemorated the 56th anniversary of his father’s April 4, 1968, assassination in Memphis at the …
Historian Harold Holzer described the American immigrant population before and during the Civil War, and how it impacted…
Historian Manisha Sinha looked at the Reconstruction Era after the Civil War and argued that the period did not end in 1…