2+ hour, 43+ min ago   (900+ words) Gabriel Barkay, a leading figure in biblical archaeology whose many discoveries in and around Jerusalem, including a pair of silver amulets from the seventh century B.C. that contained a priestly inscription, changed how historians understood early Jewish life, died on Sunday…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (157+ words) Matthew Pinsker is author of "Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln" and the Substack series: What Would Lincoln Do? There was once an American who voted for both George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. In this year of the…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago   (769+ words) A list of 250 names has been proposed for the federal government's new Garden of American Heroes, but one of our earliest revolutionaries is not included. Po'pay, a 17th-century Native American leader from what is now New Mexico, is honored with…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (739+ words) Jordan Oocumma grew up hearing stories of the mound. His grandparents imbued his childhood with tales about the strip of land at the center of a Cherokee town built by their ancestors more than a thousand years ago. But for…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (419+ words) The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind," Thomas Paine wrote in the introduction to Common Sense," the bestselling pamphlet published in January 1776 that transformed an armed rebellion for colonial rights into a global…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1792+ words) A state's capitol can tell you a lot about its history and government. Many state capitols feature references to their locations, like Kansas' statue of a Kansa warrior atop its dome, or the New Hampshire State House, which was built…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (497+ words) My ancestors are buried at Oak Hill Plantation in Pittsylvania County, Virginia'sharecroppers, tenant farmers, and formerly enslaved people whose labor built wealth they never inherited. When they died, they were granted only conditional respect. In life and in death, they…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (358+ words) In the In Times Past column, David W. Dunlap explores New York Times history through artifacts housed in the Museum at The Times. The New York Times turns 175 this year. The name was changed in 1857 to "The New-York Times" after the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (273+ words) The destructive nature of fire has shaped how archaeologists understand early funerary practices. A discovery in Malawi now calls some of those assumptions into question. "It's the earliest evidence for intentional cremation in Africa, the oldest in situ adult pyre…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago   (1183+ words) RICHMOND " In a cavernous gallery of the Valentine museum filled with marble busts and giant images of maps, Bill Martin gestured at a humble 1950s school history textbook in a display case. "This is where it gets personal for me," Martin…...