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Depictions of Antietam couldn’t possible capture the magnitude of the battle’s horror.

At least since the 1960s, a warped vision of college life has shaped U.S. culture and politics.

Cue games have had a lingering influence on our language and culture—even before the contributions of “Fast Eddie” Felson.

William Bradford Huie’s newly released research notes show he suspected more than two men tortured and killed Emmett Till, but suggest that he left it out.

Why were so many early European books laden with self-deprecation? Blame genre conventions.

Democrats’ years-long efforts to reclaim the word are cresting in this year’s Presidential race.

Just about every major development in the current presidential campaign started as a television event.

Historians question "expansion" as the defining process of U.S. growth, proposing alternative terms like "empire" and "settler colonialism."

Plus: How George Washington almost ruined his own exit from the national stage.

Exploring the correspondence of June Jordan and Audre Lorde, Marina Magloire assembles an archive of a Black feminist falling-out over Zionism.

An animation historian on Reddy Kilowatt, the cartoon charged with electrifying everything in the early 20th century.

How I learned the story of the My Lai Massacre.

National Football League pre- and postgame shows have become a testing ground for novel technology in the waning days of linear television.

Donald Trump supporters run their version of the original dog-whistle attack ad against Kamala Harris. Here’s the history.

It's misleading, invidious, and it obscures what's actually bad and scary about right-wing nationalist foreign policy.

Humans have doodled for as long as they have written and drawn, but psychoanalysis began to imagine the doodle as a key to understanding the unconscious mind.

Samuel Roth was the sort of bookseller whose wares came wrapped in brown paper.

Charting the history of a TV phenomenon.

The American public is more susceptible than ever to skewed narratives.

The latest biography of the great transcendentalist captures the paradoxes of his Yankee mind.

A pre-history of the sentence diagrams that were once commonplace in the American classroom.

"To believe that the richness of Black identity can be understood through a temporary costume trivializes the lifelong trauma of racism. It turns the complexity of Black life into a stunt."

Naked runners used to disrupt events seemingly all the time. Why’d they stop?

For more than two decades, a community of committed internet users has been chewing over the famous Londoner’s diary.

While Enlightenment philosophy may have influenced the wealthy Revolutionary elites, it was the Biblical worldview that prompted widespread resistance.

How do fandoms gain their names?

Judith Jones edited culinary greats such as Julia Child and Edna Lewis—and identified the pleasure at the core of traditional “women’s work.”

No, really.

Betty Ford and the public eye.

The end of the big-city columnist.