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Anti-Hollywood rhetoric often echoed anti-Jewish stereotypes. Carr shows how fears of Jewish “control” shaped debates over movies, culture, and politics.

Racial injustice was central to the establishment of the U.S. death penalty. Ending racial injustice must be central to its abolition.

Bill Haast, the Florida man who tried to milk medical miracles from deadly snakes.

Is it reasonable to invoke the memory of the horrors Frank suffered outside of a strictly Jewish context?

78 years ago, a US plane deporting 28 Mexican nationals crashed into California’s Los Gatos Canyon, killing all aboard.

The difficulty of amending the Constitution does not mean that it is a flawed and outdated relic of a distant past.

After reading Jason A. Heppler’s book, Patrick McCray decides that Silicon Valley should really be called Arsenic Valley.

A digital history project uses geospatial data to show how killing became a deliberate and communicative tool of extralegal mob violence.

On the pioneering and problematic career of Oscar Micheaux.

Today, only nine countries have nuclear weapons. That outcome was hardly inevitable, and the story of how we arrived there holds important lessons for AI.

Sixty years into the fire that left the town condemned, Centralia is now a haven for wild plants and butterflies.

From ugly duckling to Super Bowl favorite, a Whittier postman's discovery transformed California agriculture.

The political coalition that has formed under Trump’s banner has the potential to reshape American politics.

Exploring the non-human markers of colonial expansion and the emergence of modern capitalism through sugar plants and plantation landscapes.

Its museums, more than any others, shape the nation’s narrative. No wonder the country argues about it.

If calls for radical change aren’t given a political outlet, violence will always return.

Critics of Nicolás Maduro's capture would be on much stronger footing if they were originalists.

Trump's allies incite moral panic about shrinking white families, even as the state dismantles families of color— a paradox rooted in slavery and eugenics.

What "The Wind and the Lion" can teach us about our new era of rough-riding foreign policy.

Coretta Scott King condemned the brutality of the Vietnam War and criticized how it drained money from housing, health care, and jobs.

Montgomery shows what’s possible when museums aren’t subject to capricious executive orders.

A new novel explores the labor and social relations forged in Detroit from the introduction of the Model A in 1927 through the 1943 race riot.

An anti-war student’s strange death decades ago and how it resonates on college campuses today.

A book traces how the 1915 film reshaped cinema, fueled white supremacy, and sparked protests, censorship battles, and lasting cultural debate.

How much is enough? It’s the most basic question in the nuclear arms race. For over sixty years, few have asked it, and even fewer have received an answer.

In response to the killing of Renee Good and the ICE invasion, the Minneapolis labor movement has called for a citywide general strike call in nearly 80 years.

The project of science fiction and the creation of modern mythology.

The old, postwar world is being dismantled by its American overlord.

In ICE's invasion of Minneapolis, an echo of a dark past.

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.