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At 91, Harrison Ruffin Tyler demonstrates that "long ago" wasn't so long ago.

Gustavus Stadler on Nora Belle Guthrie's battle with Huntington's Disease.

The intersecting lives of robber barons and floundering French aristocrats.

White women were as married to the war as their Confederate menfolk.

A review of "Descent" – a family story that blends the real world and the imagination.

Born 14 years after the nation's founding, the tenth commander-in-chief still has one living grandson.

Who should be allowed to profit from depictions of traumatic events in Black history?

The heart-tug tactics of 1950s ads steered white American women away from activism into domesticity. They’re still there.

He prized self-control above all, but did not always achieve it.

Because the 19th-century college president appeared white, he was able to climb the ladder of the Jesuit community.

Reflections on the famous economist through the prism of the author's own mixed-race family.

More than a century later, they’re still paying the price.

Jill Filipovic on the generation that changed everything.

Who tells our stories has always mattered.

The unusual union of a renowned artist and the discoverer of the Polio vaccine.

The child of someone once considered a piece of property instead of a human being, Daniel Smith is a flesh-and-blood reminder that slavery wasn't that long ago

Photographer Drew Gardner painstakingly recreates the images with the notable figures' descendants.

Sometimes I learned more Black history in a week at home than I did in a lifetime of Februarys at school.

Trump’s family separation policy belongs to a much longer history of U.S. government forces taking children from families that don't match the American ideal.

How a Texan holiday became a national tradition.

PepsiCo’s move to end the racist brand comes shamefully late.

On dying and heaven in the time of Longfellow.

History shows that men have always been able to handle care work — when they have to.

J. Chester Johnson on the Elaine Race Massacre of 1919.

The pandemic doesn’t just threaten our loved ones, but knowledge of our past — so Nelson George went and found his.

During the Great Depression, the daughter of the first Jewish Supreme Court justice and the son of a prominent Christian theologian changed America.

How a scholarship helped — and didn't help — descendants of victims of the 1923 Rosewood racial massacre.

My whole life, my mother told me, ‘Always remember — you’re a Madison. You come from African slaves and a president.’

Lisa C. Hickman reconstructs William Faulkner’s tumultuous Hollywood sojourn of 1932–1936.

In the post-WWII era, American lesbians negotiated lives between straight marriages and homosexual affairs.