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How a dispute between American and Panamanian high school students over which country’s flag to fly escalated into days of violence.

Barrett thinks transgender people have experienced “relatively little” discrimination. A brief filed in the trans sports cases aims to set the record straight.

Why does the influential African-American organizer and strategist continue to speak to us, three and a half decades after his death?

On M.L.K. Day, the death of Renee Good calls to mind another woman who died protesting for the rights of others.

In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. outlined a strategy to expose official brutality. Anti-ICE protesters are following it—and it’s working.

His interest in the 11th president’s legacy has conjured up the specter of manifest destiny.

Hollywood kept distributing films in Nazi Germany, facing pressure from both the regime and US censors. Some studios resisted, others complied.

A multi-layered, hyperlinked narrative that maps Harlem residents' challenges to white economic and political power, and the responses they provoked.

Silicon Valley likes to think of itself as sui generis. But there’s a clear line from tech’s knowledge economy to the Bay Area’s first economy: gold mining.

Progressive Era reformers hoped to amend the Constitution. The democratic reforms that they achieved are well known. But what about their failures?

Exploring the follicular politics of gender, race, and poetics in the revisionist fantasy television series Dickinson.

How a president poised to lead a prosperous nation came to use the army against American citizens desperate for economic relief.

And southern politicians' failed attempts to repeal it.

In Making the Presidency, Lindsay Chervinsky shows how Adams made decisions when no structure or precedent offered guidance.

“The major issue of the American Revolution was the true constitution of the British Empire.”

Mexico’s 1910 Revolution showed that democracy endures only when economic justice is upheld through workers’ and peasants’ rights.

A new biography of the journalist Walter Lippmann bashes conservatives but adds value.

Remembering Katrina to face today's storms.

On the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition of ‘The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism.’

Southern businessmen and thinkers were inspired by ancient Egypt: To them, it served as proof that all great civilizations were sustained by enslaved labor.

Are we really living through a uniquely lonely moment? When it comes to friendship, this isn’t the first time that authorities have cried wolf.

The quirky characters and social dynamics of Mark Twain’s time in Elmira, New York.

Gurney Norman and the dream of the counterculture.

How did the Mason–Dixon Line—meant to resolve a longstanding colonial border dispute—come to represent the US’s foundational divide between slavery and freedom?

Reports on the May 1960 downing of an American U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union offer a case study in Cold War posturing and misdirection.

How American history has valorized a draw.

Chronicling the experience of a teenage soldier during the Revolutionary War.

Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton may be titans of the American Founding, but these two poles don't describe everything.

Between 1790 and 1860, New York City’s food markets were public, sustained by active government involvement. What happened?

Documents reveal the Ford administration's Efforts to block revelations of CIA covert operations in Chile.

From Venezuela to Minnesota, Trump is trying to create a borderless American power, collapsing the foreign and the domestic into a single domain of impunity.

David Lilienthal’s account of running the TVA can read like the "Abundance" of 1944. We have a lot to learn from what the book says — and what it leaves out.

Since her untimely death in 1963, the legendary country music star continues to inspire new audiences and artists.

A new book says polarization breeds impunity from scandal. But America’s worst injustices emerged when the parties got along too well.

The attack on Venezuela and abduction of Maduro surprised everyone, except oil companies. It's not the first time the U.S. was motivated by corporate interests.

A historical reconstruction of the Big Apple’s crime decline, told from inside the institutions responsible for public safety.

In "Make Your Own Job," Erik Baker shows just how long Americans have scrambled to pile work on top of work—and at what cost.

A new book recounts diverse opinions among US foreign policy intellectuals during the Korean War.

Exploring the intersection of family history with the rise of the religious right.

A culture clash driven by finances and Old World alignments had the Big Apple contemplating leaving the Union. The Civil War ended that.

The very American story of Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance.

Who gets labeled a "narco-terrorist" is all a matter of foreign policy.

A new history examines the long history of a radical and sometimes conservative concept.

The Alabama sheriff who is remembered as a saint—by everyone who isn’t black.

The Early Republic’s maritime jurisprudence is even more relevant given the immense power of the modern executive.

Trump has reinvented Reagan’s old attack, with one key twist.

The standard story of 1960s art is one of Abstract Expressionism leading into Pop Art and minimalism. The Whitney offers a different one centered on surrealism.

Po'pay, a Tewa religious leader, led the Pueblo Revolt, the most successful Indigenous rebellion in what’s now the United States.

Before Donald Trump's takeover proposal for Gaza, another New York real estate magnate had his own plans for the region.

Enigmatic, bigoted, prominent figure of the Confederacy—and one of the highest-ranking Jew in the history of American government. What do we do with him now?