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My family is a success story. We’re also evidence of the long odds African Americans face on the path to success.

Between 1910 and 1997, black farmers lost about 90% of the land they owned.

In three centuries, the heresies of two bankers became the basis of our modern economy.

Employers pay tipped workers $2.13 an hour. Why? Reconstruction-era racial discrimination.

The billions spent on the Apollo program, no matter how inspiring the mission, laid bare the nation's priorities.

The inventor, who baked the first batch of the iconic gum 40 years ago, talks about the genesis of an American rite of passage.

The right turned Linda Taylor into a bogeyman. But her real life was much more complicated.

An investigation found that USDA promoted misleading historical data which ultimately cost black farmers land, money, and agency.

The shuttering of the GM works in Lordstown will also bury a lost chapter in the fight for workers’ control.

Some people called it "Welfare Capitalism." George F. Johnson called it "The Square Deal."

In the 1830s, they brought lemons, commercial dynamism, and a willingness to fight elites.

When one system of economic oppression collapsed, new ones were created to fill the void.

The economics of childbirth under slavery.

The expansion of banks like Citigroup into Cuba, Haiti, and beyond reveal a story of capitalism built on blood, labor, and race.

If the play holds up a mirror to our moment, it is by registering slavery in a peripheral glance only to look away.

In the sport’s post-Depression heyday, one audacious grifter beat the odds with an elaborate scam: disguising fast horses to look like slow ones.

A history sheds light on venture capital’s ties to the military-industrial complex.

A new study on the toll of contract buying in Chicago during the 1950s and 1960s: $3 billion to $4 billion in lost black wealth.

Throughout the early 20th century, food corporations created advertisement campaigns directed at women.

Our young nation was very poor, the war was very expensive, and Congress and the states wanted everyone else to pay.

The indigo dye that created the Royal Navy's signature uniform color was only possible because of imperialism and slavery.

Reparations for African-Americans has been a hot topic on the presidential campaign trail, but the debate goes back centuries.

“The circulating medium… is abused like all good things, but without it you would not have had your Horace and Virgil.”

Discussions of admissions to élite colleges are built around the idea that somewhere around the next bend is the right way to do it.

A neglected theory that helps explain today’s problems.

Government-funded schools evolved from a broader system of public education that couldn't provide what students needed.

A review of Kim Phillips-Fein’s "Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics."

The historical record is clear: democracy was only won when poor people waged disruptive class struggle against the rich.

How congressional conservatives undermined the civil rights movement through the Tax Reform Act of 1969.

Black homeowners have been an oft ignored actor in metropolitan history despite playing a central role.