Federal Judge Declines to Stop Ballroom Project
A federal judge in Washington, D.C. indicated on December 16–17, 2025 that he is unlikely to grant an emergency order to stop
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History
Justice Gorsuch and What Is Owed to American Indians
Justice Neil Gorsuch has long established himself as one of the Supreme Court’s most vocal defenders of Native American rights,
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“The Supreme Court Case That Incited Violence”
📝Summary: SCOTUSblog’s post highlights a disturbing historical Supreme Court decision: Minersville School District v. Gobitis (1940), which upheld compulsory flag
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Trump fires historians who wrote nonpartisan accounts of US foreign policy
The Trump administration last month quietly fired members of the Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation, a nonpartisan body tasked
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You think 2024 has been packed with a ceaseless and exhausting stream of consequential events? So did Americans in 1940, 1968 and 1973.
History usually happens at a leisurely pace, with major events months or even years apart. But this year, it
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Homeowners sue for right to demolish Marilyn Monroe house
City of LA has tried to designate home as historic landmark Homeowners sue for right to demolish Marilyn Monroe house
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Ron Goldman’s father and Alan Dershowitz react to O.J. Simpson’s death
From the archives: 1995 ‘Nightly News’ coverage of verdict in O.J. Simpson trial The death of O.J. Simpson drew immediate reaction
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A lost 22-page transcript discovered at the National Archives reveals the secret history of how Abraham Lincoln pardoned Joe Biden’s ancestor
Abraham Lincoln pardoned President Joe Biden’s great-great-grandfather, Moses J. Robinette, in 1864. Robinette was convicted after a fight with an army
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Historians rank Trump worst president in history, Lincoln the best
Presidential rankings by academics place Obama, Biden above Reagan, Trump A new survey of over 150 scholars offered their take
Read MoreSCOTUS Rules That Half of Oklahoma is Now Native American Land
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that about half of the land in Oklahoma is within a Native American reservation, a
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