The movement launched a generation of leftist activists –and gave them a vision of real change.

Historian Beverly Gage describes the spectacular act of terrorism that took place in Manhattan a century ago.

The idea of history’s judgment was, and remains, seductive. Yet this notion cannot withstand scrutiny, as Joan Wallach Scott’s On the Judgment of History shows.

As an attorney, Derrick Bell worked on many civil-rights cases, but his doubts about their impact launched a groundbreaking school of thought.

Two new books look at the history of Latinx Democrats and Republicans and the role each will play in the future.

A review of a book by Sean Wilentz's "No Property in Man," which argues that the document is full of anti-slavery language.

Elon Musk and the rise of Silicon Valley’s strange trickle-down science.