Told

As our faith in the future plummets and the present blends with the past, we feel certain that we’ve reached the point where history has fallen apart.

A president’s infamous protestation 50 years ago during Watergate relied on an Old Norse term for things that take a turn.

As the United States prepared to enter World War I, the government created the first modern state propaganda office, the Committee on Public Information.

Experts have warned that utterly realistic A.I.-generated videos might wreak havoc through deception. What’s happened is troubling in a different way.

Slips of paper with peculiar regional terms crossed the Atlantic to Oxford and into the pages of a 70-year lexicographical project.

At the height of George W. Bush’s War on Terror, Jimmy Carter had the courage to call out Israel for its human rights abuses.

One thing’s for sure: The CIA doesn’t want you to know.

The ultimate semantic receivers, selectors, and transmitters are still us.

Making sense of anti-Semitism today requires examining Henry Ford’s outsize part in its origins.

When the Pentagon wanted a photographer to record the largest airborne assault in the Vietnam War, the most qualified candidate was a young French woman.

Rare footage of the woman magician's act captures her magnetic stage presence and range of tricks.

"Ebony" strives to become a one-stop shop.

From Bill Buckley to our 24/7 media circus.

Exclusive interviews with Daniel Ellsberg and a long-buried memo reveal new details about one of the 20th century's biggest scoops.

Buckley’s seldom-acknowledged fluency in Spanish shaped his worldview—including his admiration for dictators from Spain to Chile and beyond.

Cable TV's backers sold the technology as a boon to democracy, but embraced a business model that chased niche audiences.

Decisions made now could shape the next 100 years.

Reconstruction-era opponents of racial equality popularized the charge that protecting civil rights would amount to the end of capitalism.

Quills were once the default writing tool, when pens rose to prominence their impact on writing would be a hot debate in the literary world, and now computers.

How English words evolved on a foreign continent.

A deep dive into the historical context and changing meanings of a time-honored term.

The Max series makes a radical argument for what constitutes American history.

A survey of the New Orleans paper from 1837 to 1914 shows reporters and editors frequent used the racial slur to trivialize Black people in news and commentary.

Shelby Foote, failed novelist and closeted member of the Tribe, turned the Civil War into a masterpiece of American literature.

Executives feared their newsreel footage would “cause riots and mass hysteria.”

The founding and funding of conservative media on college campuses in the 1960s.

On Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer.”

A new book identifies the 1968 Democratic convention as the moment when broad public regard for the news media gave way to widespread distrust, and American divisiveness took off.

Favorite slur too racist? Replace it.

Were Harriet Boyd and Cora Stewart rivals in Greece in 1897? The fog of war has obscured a groundbreaking tale.