Looking to the history of U.S.-Iran relations to understand the future

In many ways, the conflict between Iran and the U.S. and Israel has been decades in the making. Ramtin Arablouei, host of NPR's podcast "Throughline," explains how.

Inside the night of chaos after the death of 'El Mencho'

The fall of “El Mencho”, accounts of how dozens of Mexican families lived through one of the “most terrifying” nights in years.

Arabic document from 17th-century rubbish heap confirms existence of semi-legendary Nubian king

Archaeological Research in Africa explores new historical evidence of one of pre-colonial Dongola's earliest rulers.

The 1,700-year-old megastructure history almost forgot

In our roundup of travel stories this week: a man recreates his father’s round-the-world bicycle trip, a luxury yacht that turned out to be a mold-covered wreck, plus the ancient Roman city 10 times ...

The Bloody Rise and Fall of Mexico’s Top Crime Boss

In a fierce firefight on Sunday, Mexican forces ended one of the most consequential criminal careers in Mexico’s modern history. His journey from farm boy to cartel boss left a trail of thousands of ...
IEEE

DGC-Link: Dual-Gate Chebyshev Linkage Network on EEG Emotion Recognition

EEG emotion recognition presents several challenges, including region correlation, local and long-range node connectivity, and multi-channel features, necessitating advanced methods capable of ...

7 Years Later, HBO's Award-Winning Historical Epic Conquers a New Streaming Home

Chernobyl, the critically acclaimed HBO miniseries about the 1986 nuclear disaster, has found renewed success on Apple TV.
Smithsonian Magazine

A White Historian Claimed That Black People ‘Had No History.’ This Trailblazing Scholar Dedicated His Life to Proving Otherwise

“If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated,” wrote Carter G. Woodson in a ...
Southern Poverty Law Center

Black History Month marks 100 years of significant achievements and milestones

The Black historian Carter G. Woodson — who dedicated his career to the study of Black life and history — responded 100 years ago to the fact that the achievements of Black men and women were not part ...
IEEE

Periodic Properties of Commutative Polynomials Defined by Fourth Order Recurrence Relations with Two Variables Over Z 2 k

Abstract: In constructing public-key cryptosystems, commutative property is an essential characteristic. Taking advantage of the commutative property of Chebyshev polynomials, a publickey cryptosystem ...
NPR

The history of Black History Month, one hundred years in

In so many spaces, celebrating Black History History month means learning a few fun facts about famous African Americans. But Black History Month was designed to be much more radical — it was an ...
The White House

NATIONAL BLACK HISTORY MONTH, 2026

This year, we celebrate the most significant milestone in our Nation’s history: 250 glorious years of American independence. From the very beginning, our country has been blessed with countless black ...