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Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.

We examine the 1918 flu to understand whether social distancing has economic costs or if slowing the spread of the pandemic reduced economic severity.

When it's safe to return, baseball can play a big role in uniting Americans and providing comfort.

While assisting businesses, Congress must also continue to help consumers.

When societies shift their economies to a war footing, it doesn’t just help them survive a crisis—it alters them forever.

In his sweeping new history, the economist systematically demolishes the conceit that extreme inequality is our destiny, rather than our choice.

This is nothing like 2008. Or even 1914.

But in 1862, the federal government doled out the 2020 equivalent of $23 million—not to the formerly enslaved but to their white enslavers.

Today's coronavirus pandemic has echoes in the yellow fever pandemic of the 1790s. Then, workers struggled with how to support themselves and their families.

In times of crisis, it has often been the wealthy who get bailed out.

Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle has come to symbolize an era of muckraking and reform. But its author sought revolution, not regulation.

Restaurants have always been about more than feeding city residents. During the 1918 flu pandemic, they were kept open as sites of social solidarity.

Eighty years ago, U.S. industry mobilized in a big way during a crisis. We could do it again.

Citizenship used to demand sacrifice. Then we taught Americans to buy things instead.

Nicholas Lemann’s history of 20th century corporations, Transaction Man, shows how an unrelenting faith in the market and profit doomed the American economy.

What began as an attempt to find more job opportunities for historians went further and launched a new field.

The dark history of how coffee took over the world.

Lessons from a century ago.

Procedures drive the bottom line in our medical system.

The Trump administration appears ready to invoke the Defense Production Act to speed manufacture of essential goods like face masks.

The GE exec was known for his big personality. He should be known for the role he played in creating America's toxic corporate culture on a base of inequality.

Bernie Sanders pushed a measure through the House to require drugs funded by public research funds to be sold at a reasonable cost. The Senate shot it down.

Reflections on the problems with progressives’ central principle that activist government is the only mechanism able to solve a modern society’s problems.

Never-before-transcribed articles from Frederick Douglass’ Paper denounce capitalism and economic inequality.

In the antebellum South, the slave trader’s office was a site of desire.

100 years ago, it took a combination of salesman and dictator to launch a historic era for black teams.

Mr. Peanut embodies two seemingly-distinct but deeply-connected Virginian worlds; he is a product of the state’s agricultural and aristocratic traditions.

Paul Samuelson’s mathematical brilliance changed economics, but it was his popular touch that made him a household name.

History suggests the value of a broader understanding of patriotism, one that goes beyond saluting-the-flag loyalty and battlefield bravery.

The school has decided how much money we’re owed in reparations.