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Topic: American History (page 3)

The small city of Hazard, Ky., shown Tuesday, May 26, 2015, nestled in the heart of the coal fields of Appalachia and is at the heart of an injection drug use problem in the region. Public health officials warn if the region doesn't get the problem under control, it's likely to see a Hepatitis C or HIV outbreak. (AP Photo/David Stephenson) (AP Photo/David Stephenson)

Native identity erased from Appalachia

M.W. Flash Clark - 100 Days In Appalachia
Major Gen. Lucian K. Truscott Jr. (AP/Getty/Photo Montage by Salon)

My grandfather was my wingman

Lucian K. Truscott IV
(Getty/Alex Wong/Salon)

History textbooks of the future

Andrew O'Hehir
(Getty Images)

Was the Confederacy really defeated?

Chauncey DeVega
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President Lyndon B Johnson discusses the Voting Rights Act with civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King Jr. (Getty/Hulton Archive)

The truth about LBJ and MLK

Phillip F. Nelson
Donald Trump appears with Navajo Code Talkers in the White House during an event to honor Native American code talkers who served in World War II, November 27, 2017. (Getty/Brendan Smialowski)

Is Trump the worst ever?

Robert Reich - RobertReich.org
Betty Reid Soskin

Why Rosie the Riveter "is not my icon"

Lauren Schiller
Grover Cleveland; Ronald Reagan (AP/Getty/Michael Evans)

Grover Cleveland's big breakthrough

Matthew Rozsa
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The simple log cabin in which US president Abraham Lincoln was born in 1809. The cabin stands on the Kentucky farm belonging to Lincoln's father and still exists, housed within a museum building. (MPI/Getty Images)

All the presidents' log cabins

Andrew Belonsky
(Getty/Salon)

The Irish helped Lincoln save the Union

Niall O'Dowd
Oprah Winfrey; Donald Trump (AP/Getty)

Trump vs. Oprah: Celebrity monomania

Andrew Burstein, Nancy Isenberg
Details of broadsides advertising performances by Richard Potter and his mentor (Historic Northampton, Massachusetts/American Antiquarian Society)

America's first black celebrity

John A. Hodgson
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(Getty/Salon)

How "fake history" empowered the right

Paul Rosenberg
Mitch McConnell (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Will Mitch kill the filibuster?

Matthew Sheffield
(AP/Evan Vucci)

Is Trump really "un-American"? Hardly

Conor Lynch
Martin Luther King Jr.; Abraham Lincoln (AP/Getty/Hulton Archive/dpetrakov)

America: Land of MLK, or "sh**hole"?

Andrew O'Hehir
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Aerial View of Atlanta, GA. (Getty Images)

How slave labor built the Western world

Carl Anthony
President John F. Kennedy, next to Jacqueline Kennedy, waves from his car in a motorcade in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963 (AP/Jim Altgens)

Live tweeting the JFK assassination

Jennie Neufeld
George W. Bush; Donald Trump (Getty Images/Photo montage by Salon)

Trump among presidents: The worst

Matthew Rozsa
Dwight D. Eisenhower; Donald Trump (AP/Getty/Salon)

Eisenhower, Trump and hubris

Andrew Burstein, Nancy Isenberg
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John Kelly (AP/Wikimedia/Salon)

John Kelly's failed history — and ours

Chauncey DeVega
John Kelly (Getty/Win McNamee)

John Kelly, hero of the Confederacy

Heather Digby Parton
A Ku Klux Klan meeting in Beaufort, South Carolina, May 24, 1965. (Getty Images)

Klan nation: How the KKK shaped America

Erin Keane
(AP)

Our silent Civil War

Edward L. Ayers
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