If the US paid reparations to descendants of enslaved people, the COVID-19 pandemic wouldn't have hit so hard across racial groups, research finds.

Dress codes can help maintain social hierarchies, but can also express emerging political ideals and aspirations.

Poor materials and lack of rigor keep schools from offering rich lessons on Black history, an expert argues. They're missing an opportunity, she says.

Even if we start to see a decrease in COVID cases, a study of the 1918 influenza pandemic suggests a spike could occur in late 2021 or early 2022.

Nine hikers were found dead in 1959 after a risky expedition in Russia's Ural Mountains. New research offers a plausible explanation.

A new book argues that the US government waged genocidal war against Native Americans from the 1600s to the 1900s.

Punishing criminal participants in the January 6 insurrection could have unintended consequences, as did investigations into the KKK in 1965.

Best case scenario? Our collective memory of the 2020 holiday season will fade quickly. Here's why experts think that's likely.

A new book explores how the kidnapping of baby Charles Lindbergh, Jr., began a media revolution and became the "crime of the century."

An expert explains how Europeans during the Middle Ages and Renaissance saw the conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter, set to happen again on December 21st.