Excerpts

Evangelicalism and the more liberal “mainline” Protestantism must be understood in a dialectical relationship to one another, rather than in isolation.

Why the history of science is of use to not only the sciences, but all branches of scholarship.

On the persistent myth of the colorblind Constitution that the Supreme Court's conservatives have embraced.

A new book offers a picture of an early Internet defined by community, experimentation, and lack of privacy. 

A new book details the cooperative practices of Black farmers in the Deep South and Detroit who played a key role in the Civil Rights movement.

Marc Dollinger argues that the conventional wisdom of Black and Jewish harmony during the civil rights era is flawed. The real story has lessons for today.

“It’s important to study history if you want to be an intelligent citizen in a democracy.”

The story of a regional ruling class that struck a devil’s bargain with disease, going beyond negligence to cultivate semi-annual yellow fever epidemics.

How British protestantism connected colonies and empire until the rupture of the American Revolution.

It’s popularly remembered as a moderate demonstration. In fact, it was the culmination of a mass, working-class movement against racial and economic injustice.

The Civil Rights Movement was a radical struggle against Jim Crow tyranny whose early foot soldiers were Communists and labor militants.

A lively defense of narrative history and the lived experience that informs historical writing.

An interview on the queer history of a forgotten prison.

The most important dimension of the sexual revolution of the '60s and '70s was the increased freedom of sexual speech.

Why have historians overlooked the connections between abolitionism and the famous New England cultural movement?

The legacies of our racial past, and the prospects ahead for an embattled republic.

How the study of historical memory created a new reckoning with the creation of “American history."

America is best understood not as the first post-colonial republic, but as an expansionist nation built on slavery and native expropriation.

For the 30th anniversary of "Dirty Dancing," we spoke to the film's screenwriter about her revolutionary decision to include a depiction of an illegal abortion.

An interview with Ben Tarnoff, the author of "Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future."

Slaveholding plantations of the 19th century used scientific management techniques—and some applied them more extensively than factories.

Communists fighting the color line. Baseball players resisting owners. Baseball's untold history of struggles against racial injustice and labor exploitation.

Noam Chomsky discusses the hypocrisies of US empire and why if we really wanted to build a decent society, we’d immediately slash the massive military budget.

An interview with Woody Holton on his new book, "Liberty is Sweet."

Debates about what should be America’s role in the world are not new—neither is the slogan “America First.”

A conversation with historian Donna Murch about the past, present, and future of Black radical organizing.

Kim Stanley Robinson on how the High Sierra has influenced his science fiction.

Michael Washburn explains what we can glean from the failure of Tom Petty's 1985 concept album "Southern Accents."

A conversation with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò on his new book, which investigates the co-option of identity politics and the importance of coalitional organizing. 

Nelson “Little D” Ross talks soul and significance with music historian Robert Gordon.

In “Captives,” former Rikers detainee Jarrod Shanahan traces the history of New York City’s sprawling jail complex, and its centrality to brutal class struggle.

An expert on the white-power movement and the “great replacement” theory puts the act of terror in context.

A new book uses the story of a former slave trader who profited after the Civil War by trafficking in convict labor to trace the historical roots of mass incarceration and racial profiling.

Dan Berger interviews Stuart Schrader about his new book on US imperialism.

To fix things, we must acknowledge the nature of the problem.

The rise and fall of the WASP.

They really do not have anything to do with each other.

An interview with Jesse Tarbert about the history of the American state, “big government,” and the legacy of government reform efforts.

On the fraught and turbulent relationship between religion and government in the U.S.

What connection does the party of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson have to the party of Barack Obama and Kamala Harris?

A new book explores how immunity to the disease created opportunities for white, but not Black, people.

Smokeable pot's proliferation in North America involves the Mexican Revolution, the transatlantic slave trade, and Prohibition.

The author discusses Whitney Houston, Gladys Knight, racism in magazines, and why she’s so hopeful for the future of music and writing.

A conversation with historian Gary Gerstle about understanding neoliberalism as a bipartisan worldview and how the political order it ushered in has crumbled. 

While the world’s fastest-growing religious faith offers material benefits and psychological uplift to many, it also pushes a reactionary political agenda.

The key witness in Clarence Thomas’s nomination process discusses how sex and race shaped the new Justice’s experience, and her own.

A conversation about "Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World."

The system's roots aren't in rescuing children, but in the policing of Black, Indigenous, and poor families.

Josh Hawley’s attacks on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson are part of a long, sad tradition.

Historian Daryl Scott weighs in on the 1619 Project and the "possibility that we rend ourselves on the question of race."