Topic: History

$Donald Trump during a press conference at the NATO Summit in Ankara, Turkey, July 8, 2026. (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)$

The tyrant's playbook

Andrea Mazzarino

$A sign in Big Spring, Texas in 1999 reads "Jesus Saves." (Homer Sykes via Getty Images)$

"Bible Belt" oversimplifies the South

John Hayes - The Conversation

$Lonnie G. Bunch III, 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, speaks onstage during the John and Lillian Miles Lewis Foundation 2025 Good Trouble Gala at Flourish Atlanta on May 29, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images)$

Smithsonian head retiring amid feuds

Troy Farah

$Donald Trump and Elon Musk (Brandon Bell / Getty Images)$

Trump and Musk's history obsession

Sonja Drimmer

$Anthea Hartig, director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, faced criticism from Heritage Foundation fellow Mike Gonzalez and House Republicans at a congressional hearing (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)$

MAGA wants its history simple

Alex Galbraith

$Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong'o, Charlize Theron, Zendaya and Samantha Morton at the premiere of Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Universal Pictures)$

The real "Odyssey" debate

Katherine Kelaidis

$Roswell Encina is surrounded by masked members of the Patriot Front, a white supremacist group (Finn Gomez/Getty Images)$

My subway ride with white supremacists

Roswell Encina

$An 1801 illustration of the USS Enterprise capturing Tripolitan Corsair, layered behind ships anchored in the Gulf of Oman on June 21, 2026, as U.S.-Iran tensions eased and the Strait of Hormuz prepared to reopen. (Illustration by Salon / Shady Alassar / Anadolu via Getty Images / National Archives)$

The war that defined America

Troy Farah

$French Minister of the Armed Forces Catherine Vautrin and U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at a ceremony marking the 82nd anniversary of the D-Day landings, Normandy American Cemetery, Colleville-sur-Mer, France, June 6, 2026. (Lou Benoist/AFP via Getty Images)$

Leave it to Pete Hegseth to ruin D-Day

Heather Digby Parton

$Florida's new high school history course presents the nation's founders as opposed to slavery (Getty Images)$