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America’s favorite gun.

Before being pushed aside by the NCAA, the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women governed women’s college athletics.

The venerable movie studio once defined the industry's zeal for consolidation, pioneering vertical integration and serving as the model for its major rivals.

One academic tells the story behind his new book -- and his next one.

A review of three new studies about how race and class intersect.

In pre-Civil War Richmond, Black people were forced to literally pay for the mechanisms of white supremacy.

While engagement or wedding rings are certainly not a new idea, the prevalence of diamonds is a more recent phenomenon.

40 years ago in Chicago, McMaid workers sparked a movement.

The recent history of copyright in music cannot be separated from the rise of technologies for the recording and transmission of content online.

An interview with Jennifer Burns on her authoritative new biography of the American economist and the personal and intellectual origins of his theories.

Economists and historians have been telling us the wrong story about Continental currency for two centuries.

Introducing a project on US labor history, exploring what we can learn from 1930s-1950s industrial struggles.

The slow unraveling of a nation’s suburbs.

How to thrive in the power élite—while declaring it your enemy.

Without smart regulation, price competition turns into a race to the bottom.

A formerly dominant American retail chain nears extinction.

A new book shows that Uber was a symbol of a neoliberal philosophy that neglected public funding and regulation in favor of rule by private corporations.

The economist’s lifelong pugilism wasn’t in spite of his success—it may have been the key to it.

The indoor suburban shopping center is a special kind of abandoned place.

If history had taken another path, bar codes would look dramatically different today.

American elites accepted the economic theory of "comparative advantage" mainly because it justified their geopolitical agenda.

Samuel W. Franklin’s latest book explains how we sold ourselves out to a fake virtue.

George Leonidas Leslie is still waiting for his HBO series.

An irresistible trend took hold 50 years ago, and we’re all paying the price.

Recovering the long-overlooked significance of the “hillbilly highway” in the US, with implications for labor history as well as US history broadly.

Attacks on private property enraged Colonial leaders and the British public, hardening positions and ruling out compromise.

What the tech pioneer can, and can’t, teach us.

The Southern Tenant Farmers Union was founded on the principle of interracial organizing.

Ronald Reagan's economic policies exacerbated the racial wealth gap— and they've guided all his successors.

In its early days, Coca-Cola established key relationships in the supply chain ranging from natural resources to pharmaceuticals to achieve market dominance.