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Fear of illnesses from abroad is nothing new The word quarantine -- French for forty days -- dates to the middle ages.

In Cold War, U.S. Spy Agencies Used 1,000 Nazis The agency hired one former SS officer as a spy in the 1950s, for instance, even after concluding he was probably guilty of “minor war crimes.”

New museum in Poland -- the grandest space created since 1989 -- tells the story of the Jews With anti-Semitism having become more prominent again across Europe, something quite different is growing in a huge, translucent building at the center of a vanished neighborhood in Warsaw.

Lewinsky mistreated by authorities in investigation of Clinton, report says According to the report, a prosecutor who confronted Lewinsky “exercised poor judgment and made mistakes in his analysis, planning and execution of the approach.”

Scientists Say Proof Of Jack The Ripper's Identity Is Fatally Flawed Who was Jack the Ripper?

Memorial for black Revolutionary War soldiers finds spot on Mall after 30 years Last month, Congress unanimously authorized a site for the memorial.

Sherlock Holmes star to feature in a new movie about Alan Turing The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, is opening in wide release later this fall, bringing the tragic story of Alan Turing to the movies.

Man’s Genome From 45,000 Years Ago Is Reconstructed And the genome, extracted from a fossil thighbone found in Siberia, added strong support to a provocative hypothesis: Early humans interbred with Neanderthals.

This company claims its video games about the French Revolution are accurate Trois-Rivieres history professor Laurent Turcot sees the potential for video games to introduce students and others to how people lived in the past.

Origins of sex discovered A profound new discovery by palaeontologist, Flinders University Professor John Long, reveals how the intimate act of sexual intercourse first evolved in our deep distant ancestors.

Ebola and the politics of fear From Johnson's 'Daisy Girl' ad to Reagan's Soviet bear, politicians have been trying to scare voters to the polls for decades. Now, Ebola is handing candidates an arresting talking point.

AP: Expelled Nazis are still getting social security The payments flowed through a legal loophole that has given the U.S. Justice Department leverage to persuade Nazi suspects to leave.

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Notre Dame Professor Hits School President After Pro-Gay Policy In face of university's "secularist project," Father Miscamble advises go straight to the top.

How Laurel Thatcher Ulrich caught up with the past "I had the advantage of disadvantage."

Postal Workers Take on Harvard President, historian Drew Faust Criticism of Harvard University is coming from an unusual quarter: postal workers.

Symposium held in honor of John D’Emilio The event, hosted by the Gender and Women’s Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago, took place in September.

Thousands of Historic Archives from British Asylums to Go Online The paintings, poetry and accounts of cricket matches from British psychiatric patients are among some 800,000 historic documents about to go online.

American Studies Association boycott of Israel: Conservatives say it’s weakening "In a bit of bad luck for the ASA, the group’s annual conference is in California, a state whose sweeping civil rights law forbids … discriminating on the basis of national origin."

YIVO Vilna Project Will Digitize Jewish History The newly combined archive—half in New York, half in Vilnius, Lithuania—will include 10,000 rare or unique publications and plenty of primary sources: 1.5 million letters, memoirs, and photographs.

Columbia historian Eric Foner is giving his lectures to the public -- and to posterity — through a free MOOC. "Like any theatrical production, a lecture is not forever. You perform, and it’s gone. At some point I realized that I wanted to preserve a little bit of this.”

Black studies professor in the middle of exploding scandal at the University of North Carolina Julius Nyang’oro was the professor of record for many of the fake classes.

2 conservative groups are leading the fight against the new AP standards They recently sent a letter to the College Board asking that implementation of the revisions be postponed.

The secret of successful history departments While a majority of departments in the US have seen falling enrollments, those that feature women's history and other specialities have seen increases.