The prison on Alcatraz Island wasn't called 'The Rock' for nothing. (National Park Service) When I teach the Civil War, I frequently encounter surprised faces when students learn that California, so ...

Ireichō is a book containing the names of 125,284 individuals of Japanese ancestry incarcerated without due process during World War II. Survivors like my father place a Japanese hanko, or stamp, ...

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum is adding a historic artifact to its collection that will go on display ...

Khomeini’s revolution was followed quickly by an Iranian student faction’s seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran (the “nest of spies” they called it) and Jimmy Carter’s inability to negotiate the ...

Retired Wake Forest University dean Gordon McCray and his wife, Coleen, donated one of these remaining chairs to the ALPLM.

The Iraqi capital is still trying to recover from the destruction and economic stagnation that followed the US invasion of ...

My Swampscott friend Ralph Edwards and I have worked on many projects together over the years. We continue to do so. One of the most memorable took place in the Fall of 2016. We arranged Voter ...

Ship traffic has been halted again in the Strait of Hormuz after President Trump ordered the U.S. military to begin a naval blockade of all Iranian ports and coastal areas starting Monday at 10 a.m.

AMY GOODMAN: Ship traffic has halted again in the Strait of Hormuz after President Trump ordered the U.S. military to begin a ...

From Awadh’s bequests to Muharram politics, Indian Shia solidarity with Iran has deep roots. What fuels it today amid repression? Read on.

Historian Stuart Schrader on the untold history of police unions—and how they helped catapult cops to new heights of power and impunity.

Washington, Georgia is here to prove they’re not, and it’s been hiding in plain sight this whole time. Main Street charm ...