Justice

Women’s military uniforms were once about making soldiers look feminine. Now they’re about enhancing performance.

The right to abortion has been both supported and contested throughout history.  When banned, abortions still occur, but legal restrictions make them less safe.

“I came to the realization that taking to the streets to fight social revolution in this country is like ‘spitting in the wind; it will fly back into your face.”

When Susan Struck fought being discharged for pregnancy from the US Air Force, it brought the right to choose into a different light.

My Chinese-immigrant parents dreamed big for me, their American-born daughter whom they raised in the suburbs east of San Francisco.

A 1923 article in a fashion magazine shows the connection between flappers and social media youth organizers today.

Bikepacking historian Erick Cedeño retraces the Buffalo soldiers' legendary journey from Montana to Missouri to rethink it and its place in American history.

McGirt v. Oklahoma and the failure of denationalization.

The story of philanthropists Catherine Williams Ferguson and Isabella Marshall Graham’s unlikely interracial collaboration.

The provision, which makes it a felony to talk about abortion online, has been on hold since the Clinton administration. Could it be enforced in the future?

Formed in 1912 for “women who did things—and did them openly,” the Heterodoxy Club laid the groundwork for a century of American feminism.

To many urban Americans in the 1920s, the car and its driver were tyrants that deprived others of their freedom.

At the heart of recent US Supreme Court decisions, the Fourteenth Amendment was framed to require free speech and free elections in the South.

How Christian conservatives' version of American history shaped the Supreme Court’s abortion and gun decisions.

History shows laws will end up as weapons deployed in discriminatory ways to curtail freedom.

How the movement to end legal abortion became intertwined with a different conservative pet project.

Cooper’s hijacking-as-extortion plot captured the public’s imagination – and inspired a copycat crime wave.

Organized movements to bring racial equality to the golf course have been part of the sport since the early 1900s.

The right might be targeting a seminal Supreme Court case that protects educational fairness.

The right to abortion is an affirmation that women and girls have the right to control their own destiny.

What we can learn from the work of the university administrator who went toe to toe with Howard Zinn.

The history of the Supreme Court is replete with outrages and abominations, but they can be tough to overcome.

Fifty years ago in 1972, as spring faded and summer arrived in late June, America (and the world) was a vastly different place.

The conservative Supreme Court's favorite judicial philosophy requires a very, very firm grasp of history — one that none of the justices seem to possess.

How the city’s pioneering, pot-smoking queer activist rose from the ashes of anti-gay violence.

The centrist, compromising view of reproductive rights in Planned Parenthood v. Casey helped clear the path to overturn Roe v. Wade.

How activists can secure legal abortion with a diverse all-of-the-above movement.

A lack of enforcement has blunted Title IX's transformative potential.

Why reinserting race and class into our understanding of Pride is so important.

It’s time to admit that the nation’s highest court has been a source of harm more often than it’s been a force for justice.