“Have a nice day (afternoon, evening, night, you name it)” has become ubiquitous — I love that word — in our world. If making a grocery purchase, scheduling a doctor’s appointment, having a ...

This straight-arm gesture was first popularized by the Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini. There’s no evidence that there was ever such a thing as a ‘Roman salute’ in antiquity. From airing his ...

As someone who spends a lot of time reading in archives and on microfilm, I keep myself on guard for “presentism,” the fallacy in which we apply contemporary mores and perspectives on the past. I run ...

Editor: The kerfuffle surrounding Elon Musk’s hand salute represents historical amnesia, the national swing, and the uselessness of it. In 1892, a Baptist minister, Francis Bellamy wrote what was to ...

So was it a Hitler salute or wasn’t it? Speaking at President Donald Trump’s inauguration event this week, Elon Musk slapped his right hand on his chest before shooting his arm diagonally upward, palm ...

Politicians — including those from North Dakota, Minnesota and Montana — fell for Adolf Hitler’s ‘Big Lie’ in the 1930s, and cozied up with Nazis to distribute propaganda on the taxpayers' dime. View ...

MOUNTAIN BROOK, Ala. — A Jewish high school student said he couldn’t believe what was going on when a history teacher in a wealthy Alabama school system had classmates stand and give a stiff-armed ...