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Illustration by Paul Spella. Sources: Vladimir Pomortzeff / … Did George Washington Burn New York?
Americans disparaged the British as arsonists. But the rebels fought with fire too.
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic; Getty The Mistakes Historians Make on Television
History professionals can offer crucial insights on the great issues of the day. But best beware these stock phrases.
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Getty; The Atlantic What It Feels Like When Fascism Starts
A 1933 novel tracks the Nazis’ rise to power in real time.
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Tejumola Butler Adenuga The Grimke Sisters and the Indelible Stain of Slavery
The abolitionists have long been portrayed as heroes. A new book views them, and their family, in a different light.
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The Atlantic; Amistad Research Center / Tulane University; … Ken Burns Tells America’s History Through Six Photographs
These images reveal our nation’s most persistent tensions.
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Getty; National Archives and Records Administration; Joanne Imperio … Why Democracies Are So Slow to Respond to Evil
Ken Burns’s docuseries The U.S. and the Holocaust confronts a topic that many Americans of every political stripe prefer to avoid: responsibility.
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic; Getty Historical Fiction Turns a Life Into a Story
Our day-to-day doesn’t follow an obvious plot. The arc of the past is visible only in hindsight.
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Jan Buchczik 11 Ancient Solutions for Modern Malaise
The Roman philosopher Seneca’s essay “On a Happy Life” is full of lessons that are as pertinent today as they were two millennia ago.
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Copyright Baldwin Lee. Courtesy of Hunters Point Press … A More Complete Archive of the American South
Baldwin Lee’s rediscovered photographs are marked by moral clarity and rare intimacy.
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Bettmann / Getty 100 Years Ago in Photos: A Look Back at 1922
Some of the events and sights from around the world a century ago: the construction of the Lincoln Memorial, a famine in Russia, and Benito Mussolini's takeover of the Italian government
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John Margolies / Library of Congress Roadside America, Photographs by John Margolies
A selection of images of intriguing structures, some long gone, others still around but changed over the years
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NASA Apollo’s First Lunar Rover, Driven 50 Years Ago
Images of the development, training, and deployment of the first vehicle driven by humans on the surface of another world
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Luis Davilla / Cover / Getty An Archivist Sneezes on a Priceless Document. Then What?
What, exactly, does history lose when an archive-worthy text is destroyed?
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Peter Parks / AFP / Getty Preserving Hong Kong, in Miniature
Model makers Tony Lai and Maggie Chan have been working to preserve the Hong Kong of their childhood in miniature form.
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Spencer Grant / Getty Boston in the 1970s
A collection of some of the sights and events taking place in and around Boston from 1970 to 1979
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Kazuhiro Nogi,Str / AFP / Getty / Kazuhiro … 10 Years Since the Great East Japan Earthquake
Residents are marking the passage of a decade since a magnitude-9.0 earthquake struck off Japan’s northeastern shore—the most powerful earthquake ever recorded to have hit the country.
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General Photographic Agency / Getty 100 Years Ago in Photos: A Look Back at 1921
A look at some of the events and sights from around the world a century ago
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Charles Dharapak / AP Photos: Remembering the Life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Images from the life of an iconic woman, and from the memorials in recent days
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Jeff Hutchens John Lewis: Photos From a Life Spent Getting Into Good Trouble
Images from the long and storied life of a U.S. representative and civil-rights icon
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National Archives The Influenza Masks of 1918
A collection of images from a century ago of people doing their best to keep others and themselves safe, during a global health crisis
