Money

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.

America’s obsession with beef was born of conquest and exploitation.

Exploitation and predatory pricing drove the transformation of the beef industry – and created the model for modern agribusiness.

Why the Green New Deal fits right in with America’s energy economy.

Before free trade became a consensus, Friedrich List argued that U.S. industry should be put first.

A new insider account reveals how the Obama administration’s botched bailout deal reinforced neoliberal Clintonism.

Smith wasn’t warning about government intervention in the market; he was warning about government capture.

The function of the "innovation" buzzword is to sustain the myth that business genius creates society’s wealth.

Fifty years ago, Flood took a stand and paved the way for free agency.

The forgotten history of how our governments unconstitutionally segregated this country.

What Southern dynasties’ post-Civil War resurgence tells us about how wealth is really handed down.

Federal deposit insurance and the 1980s bank crisis.

Standard clothing sizes don’t exist.

A closer look at the geopolitics of weapons sales through the Cold War, and beyond.

A new book tells the history of America through its workplace struggles.

Business schools fetishize innovation, but their heroes succeeded due to manipulation of corporate law, not personal brilliance.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, students at America’s elite universities were treated differently based on the social stature of their parents.

If we are going to fund a Green New Deal, we need to acknowledge how the original actually worked.