Justice

His time working for Monsanto and other polluting industries helped make him the fierce conservative he is today.

Gay marriage was a victory, we’re told—but a victory for what?

During the war in Vietnam, there was a notorious American prison on the outskirts of Saigon: a prison for American soldiers.

Historical perspective on school integration.

Characterized throughout American history as symbols of crisis, trauma, and grief, these women reject those narratives through world-making of their own.

Two books trace anti-police uprisings to the urban riots of the Civil Rights era. But as people took to the streets in 2020, why did so few pick up a brick?

The Supreme Court and the pursuit of racial equality.

How the case of the kidnapped paperboys accelerated the “stranger danger” panic of the 1980s.

For Ralph Waldo Emerson, political activism was full of empty gestures done in bad faith. Abolition called for true heroism.

Elkison v. Deliesseline presented a federal court with the question of whether a state could incarcerate and enslave a free subject of a foreign government.

What the Dred Scott v. Sandford case meant for black citizenship.

Among the nearly half a million atomic bomb victims and survivors were thousands of Japanese American citizens of the United States.

America did exactly what the Kerner Commission on the urban riots of the mid-1960s advised against, and fifty years later reaped the consequences it predicted.

Johanna Fernández's new book on the Young Lords sheds light on the group's fight for clean streets and public health in 1960s New York City.

The late civil-rights leader understood that grassroots organizing was key to delivering political power to Black Americans in the South.

The common denominator? Fear of Black liberation.

Looking back on the George Floyd rebellion.

The massive U.S. apparatus for holding immigrants has a long American tradition.

Anthony Comstock’s crusade against vice constrained the lives of ordinary Americans. His antagonists opened up history for feminists and other activists.

Without New York Times vs. Sullivan, freedom of speech and the press could be drastically truncated.

The relationship between enslaved women and the Revolutionary war.

John Glenn's fan mail shows many girls dreamed of the stars.

The Scottsboro Case quickly became one of the most infamous international spectacles that would eventually define the interwar period.

In 1968, Chicago grabbed the eyes of the world when fifteen thousand Vietnam antiwar protesters vowed to shut down the National Democratic Convention.

In the early twentieth century, teachers were prohibited from keeping their jobs after getting pregnant. Socialist feminists organized to change that.

For centuries, everyone from archaeologists to amateurs pillaged artifacts — and human remains. Now, the FBI is cracking down on those who continue to dig.

A look in on the first evolution trial.

Edward Spicer's writings indicate an awareness of the deeply unjust circumstances that Japanese Americans found themselves in within Japanese internment camps.

How people understood disabilities in the 18th century, in contrast to contemporary interpretation, requires historical nuance.

As wartime labor shortages depleted police forces, and fear of crime grew, chiefs turned to new initiatives to strengthen and professionalize their officers.