Brian Ferguson’s research on the origins of war, going back to the beginning of human history and our closest ape relatives, suggests war is not part of our evolution. War and all of its brutality ...
“In the absence of popular movements strong enough to rip down marble idols and generate public shame, U.S. history lessons omit everything they can and carefully mold anything so large that it cannot be avoided. ...
“After the Civil War, Southern police departments often carried over aspects of the patrols. These included systematic surveillance, the enforcement of curfews, and even notions of who could become a police officer.” On May 25 ...
Martin Luther King Jr. will appear via virtual reality in a special exhibit at Chicago’s DuSable Museum of African American History. Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. will appear via virtual reality in a ...
Grumpy Old Men, the heist film & a true story of Dick Nixon’s dirty money: meet director Mark Steven Johnson of Finding Steve McQueen. Filmmaker Mark Steven Johnson dishes on filmmaking, screenwriting, Richard Nixon’s dirty ...
“For me, though, film is about emotion.” — Meet director Kevin Wilson Jr. of the 2018 Oscar-nominated My Nephew Emmett I caught up with film-maker Kevin Wilson Jr. to talk influences, film and making the ...
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…” A new documentary about the Statue of Liberty features appearances by several public figures and Hollywood stars such as Jessica Chastain, Monica ...
Could a president removed from office legitimately take the oath of office again? (By Austin Sarat, The Conversation) The launching of an “official impeachment inquiry” into President Donald Trump’s conduct has sailed America into largely ...
Simmering racial and cultural tensions in the U.S. have played out in the debate over the legacy of Confederate monuments across the country, but have any statues been removed? According to the latest Southern Poverty ...
The trailer for the upcoming biopic Harriet, about the famed abolitionist, suffragette and conductor of the underground railroad was released this week. Tony-award winning actress Cynthia Erivo (the musical “The Color Purple”) will portray Harriet ...
Jerrie Cobb and twelve other women passed astronaut testing for the United States’ first human spaceflight program in the early 1960s, but born years too early, not one would ever make it to space. However, ...
“Davis’ life was complex, complicated and contradictory. A new documentary on trailblazing entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr. takes us on a journey through a tumultuous period in U.S. history from World War II to Civil Rights ...
“This film is about the 9/11 Generation and the American Dream.” The 16 children that were with President George W. Bush when he learned of the 9/11 attacks are to be the subject of a ...
The first four parts of this series have discussed the basics of media bias, as well as press in the colonial, revolutionary and constitutional eras of U.S. history. This segment concerns a period of history ...
African Americans and free thinkers are finally leaving the left in droves. Candace Owens, director of Turning Point USA, has been the victim of vicious liberal attacks because she is a black woman who supports ...
Popular children’s book author Laura Ingalls Wilder will have her name removed from a major children’s book award, after concerns over potentially offensive racial depictions in her books, which were first published in the 1930s. The ...
Historical context is essential to a true understanding of bias and partisanship in U.S. news media. This article focuses on the advent and early development of newspapers in the colonial era, from about the mid ...
The first national memorial paying tribute to victims of lynching opened in Montgomery, Alabama on Thursday. Over the weekend, visitors flocked to the National Memorial for Peace and Justice to view the 800 steel slabs ...
The University of Virginia will celebrate its 200th anniversary next year. Since its founding in 1819, much has happened on campus, and administrators thought they knew everything there was to know about their beloved Charlottesville institution. ...
Operation Mockingbird was a CIA program that enlisted more than 400 American journalists, as well as journalists around the world, to manipulate public opinion by spreading propaganda or what we call it today, fake news. ...
Back in the days of an unregulated stock market JFK’s father, Joseph Kennedy, built a family fortune through insider trading and real estate, among other shrewd business practices. The Kennedy family is American royalty. John ...
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