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Educators can fight back against Trump’s attacks by re-embracing “old-fashioned” disciplines and ideas.

Tracing markers from near and distant past and unspooling the narratives about the imprints we leave on the planet for what they say about the future.

How an astrologer's direction steered presidential travel, public appearances, and meetings.

On the iconic conservation legacy of Theodore Roosevelt and the perception that the national parks and monuments he created were previously untouched and empty.

From a dying adviser to a clumsy editorial, the Revolution was a cascade of accidents and oversights.

There are two ways to understand John Maynard Keynes: tracing his influences and legacies, and highlighting the ideas and perspectives he missed.

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

A history of the Bloody Pit.

Art, politics, and revolution intertwined as transatlantic Patriots used wax, paint, and wit to shape the fight for American independence.

He made his name in Chicago investigating race riots, solving crimes, and exposing corruption. But America’s first Black private eye was hiding his own secrets.

Sam Tanenhaus’s biography of William F. Buckley has certain limitations, but it captures the character of conservatism’s founding father.

In the book “Rooted,” activist and writer Brea Baker elucidates the thread between limited Black land ownership and the racial wealth gap.

Painter William Merritt Chase opened an art school for a new generation of women, teaching them how to draw as well as how to advocate for themselves.

Nietzsche’s continued presence and resonance in America suggests that he never forgot his Emersonian inheritance.

On William W. Watt’s experience in the aftermath of nuclear devastation.

On the unblissful union between Miriam Leslie and Willie Wilde.

We must mobilize now to defend our profession, not only with research and teaching but in the realm of politics and public persuasion.

The history of gerrymandering suggests that the current redistricting race for short-term partisan gain indicates a period of political instability on the way.

Historians are recovering the overlooked history of North America’s Crotalus horridus, the timber rattlesnake.

As plans are laid for a new casino, one can trace, through four figures, a history of rivalry and excess, rife with collisions of character and crime.

On the life, influences, and “sophisticated yet lucid brand of Marxism” of the late, great writer.

The biggest problem with the history Trump wants to impose on us is that it never, in fact, existed.

On freedom, servitude, and writing a novel set in the seventeenth century.

The long and winding tale behind the Resolute Desk.

By posting paintings like “American Progress,” the DHS signals its white supremacist beliefs.

How the New Right emerged from neoliberalism’s inner split.

Eighty years after the bomb, scientists still grapple with nuclear legacy. Some seek atonement, others insist it’s no longer their burden.

Sixty-four years after Radio Free Dixie first aired, the show is still a shining example of a truly revolutionary cultural institution.

A woman killed by Congress.

After Hiroshima, scientists became key political voices, some as stewards, others as activists, shaping nuclear policy and moral responsibility.

With Iran’s theocracy under strain, a new history shows that its rise was mainly a stroke of bad luck.

Previously unknown, a map drawn by Lord Percy, the British commander at Lexington, sheds new light on the perilous retreat to Boston.

How Lakota performers challenged the 'exotic othering' of their identities in the Sarrasani circus.

A new book examines the long history of racial inequality in higher education through the post-baccalaureate experiences of Jim Crow era African Americans.

A lack of regulatory oversight of supplements allows misleading labels and dangerous products to slip through the cracks and into American homes.

Vague phrasing enfranchised women who met specific property requirements. A 1790 law explicitly allowed female suffrage, but this privilege was revoked in 1807.

To restore public trust and prepare for the next pandemic, we need a reckoning with the U.S. experience—what worked, and what didn’t.

People tend to assume they know exactly what the Cold War was and when it ended. Anders Stephanson argues that this standard chronology doesn’t fit the facts.

Conflicts over Israel’s founding encompassed religion, race, and politics.

He misrepresented the history of the gym-class test. I know because I served on the council that helped modernize it.

The United States has forgotten the radical German American immigrant socialists who spilled blood for antislavery and other liberatory causes.

Coaches have long sacralized the gridiron, extolling it alongside faith, family and the military as a setting stone of the social order.

"It is only stereotypes of Indians as primitive that make their power to transform markets surprising."

NASA recently announced a partnership with a couture designer, but in the 1960s, the first spacesuits were made by a company known for bras and girdles.

As a clergyman and physician, his medical practice, his chronic illnesses, and his theology were intertwined throughout his life.

How and why ideas like germ theory are pursued, accepted or ignored, and how human habits of the mind can make it difficult to ask the right questions.

For as long as the United States has had nuclear weapons, officials have struggled with how to transport the destructive technology.

Investigators never reached a conclusion about the death of Pullman porter J. H. Wilkins, but his killing revealed much about the dangers of his profession.

In 1861, Edward Payson Weston walked the 500 miles from Boston to D.C., and launched a legendary career as a pedestrian in the process.

In 1864 San Francisco, Twain found hardship, Bohemia, and his voice—transforming from local reporter to rising literary force.