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When Democrats claimed the individual mandate, Republicans lost their best idea for health-care reform.

In dismantling Obamacare and slashing Medicaid, Republicans would strike a blow against signature victories for racial equality in America.

The word 'history' evolved from an ancient Greek verb, but its definition has changed over the years

The memorial to the men sat in a field until 2010 when officials took a fork lift to it.

The bill unleashed a poisonous idea: that America had defeated racism.

Prisons today undergo criticism but in the 19th and the 20th century prisons treated their inmates as "slaves of the state.”

In 1935, as lava from Mauna Loa advanced on Hilo, the not-yet-famous Army general was called to the rescue.

How seaside towns throughout the northeast limited the ability of ‘undesirables’ to access public beaches.

The researchers compiling the U.S. Army’s accounts of Iraq and Afghanistan have an unprecedented volume of material to sort.

New labels at the Worcester Art Museum are drawing attention to the connections between art, slavery, and wealth in early America.

James Comey’s testimony joins the pantheon of dramatic congressional moments.

You cannot have reconciliation without empathy. And you can’t have empathy unless people know the past pain that informs our present.

Buying goods in the Old South revealed the fragile politics at the heart of master-slave relation.

An exclusive excerpt from "The One Device" about the engineering fight that created the iPhone as you know it.

A housing policy expert explains how federal government policies created the suburbs and the inner city.

Preston Brooks, Greg Gianforte, and the American tradition of disguising cowardice as bravery.

Chinese restaurants are now an American staple, but in the past some Americans tried to shut them down.

Pundits can't seem to define what exactly the term refers to. Turns out it was developed for a very particular historical moment.

Understanding the complex history of the Confederate flag.

States with homogenous populations spend more on the safety net than those with higher shares of minorities.

Career bureaucrats in the Trump administration are proving that bureaucrats can be dedicated to a cause other than themselves.

Kente serves as more than a pop of color at college graduations.

Lee should not be defined not only by his time as a Confederate general, but also by his actions after the war was over.

The fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline is part of a centuries-long indigenous struggle against dispossession.

Hillary Clinton is the most maligned presidential loser in history. What’s going on?

Many Americans could have gone either way during the Revolution.

The Long Hot Summer of 1967 was the inevitable result of forced duality.

A new look at the Declaration of Independence from 24 scholars across the country.

For talented black spellers in the 1960s, the segregated local spelling bee was the beginning of the long road to Washington, D.C.

Passengers angered by how they are treated during flight, may find an unlikely ally in the labor movement.

Those who honor Jackie Robinson must remember his importance outside the baseball diamond.

America’s most iconic automaker plans to drive almost all of their passenger sedans into the sunset by 2020.

Twenty years ago, Microsoft tried to eliminate its competition in the race for the internet's future. The government had other ideas.

In the 1930s, Soviet leaders decided that black American authors could teach Russians “to write social poetry.”

Is the Baby Boomer generation to blame for America's crumbling roads, galloping income inequality, bitter polarization and dysfunctional government?

When a "scofflaw carnival" occupied the L.A. aqueduct.

Only in the past 100 years has unauthorized immigration become a crime.

A series of deadly shark attacks by the Matawan Man-Eater shook New Jersey and prompted President Wilson to declare war on sharks.

A graphic history of the community displaced for the vast public park in 1857.

Music scholar Katya Deve explores the history and geography of hip-hop.

It was all about the parallels between a new "bathroom bill" and the Jim Crow segregation of her youth.

The Web dwells in a never-ending present. The Wayback Machine aims to preserve its past.

On revolution and violence.

The origins of rock and roll are unknown, but no one can deny the role Chuck Berry played.

Never mind Fox. Trump’s most reliable media mouthpiece is now Christian TV.

A review of a "The Low Road," a “mordantly anti-Hamiltonian” play that made its debut at New York's Public Theater this spring.

The chilling tale of a tragedy that was seemingly erased from the American consciousness.

A new documentary on Michael Brown comes just in time.

The ubiquitous plastic vessel has come a long way.

The flowing, connected interior has become ubiquitous, and beloved. But it promises a liberation from housework that remains a fantasy.