The VIP crowd shivered in a line that snaked around a downtown D.C. block, about 1,650 patrons who had tickets to a limited access opening Friday night. They weren’t headed to an exclusive nightclub ...

History isn’t supposed to be comfortable. It’s supposed to be honest. Right now, we’re watching a dangerous trend: the sanitizing of America’s past in order to sell a cleaner, prettier story. But no ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Image by Pharrell in collaboration with Emily Shur and Hank Willis Thomas On April 26, 1607, three ships carrying 105 men and boys landed on the eastern shore of what would come to be called America.

Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural address is a dense, technical affair. Delivered in March 1861, before the outbreak of the Civil War but after seven states had left the Union, it could hardly have ...