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The once-glamorous casinos and hotels have become a gilded ghost town.

To understand why evangelicals vote Republican, we shouldn’t focus just on Falwell; we need to look at a century or more of evangelical political culture.

Ambrose Bierce deviated from the refined eeriness of English-style ghost stories for his haunting descriptions of fateful coincidence and horrific revelation.

Before the establishment of the modern FDA, anti-regulation attitudes ruled the world of food.

In response to the build-up of Soviet nuclear missiles on Cuba, JFK ordered a quarantine of the island and military surveillance missions.

Beyond “Hamilton”: How the friends turned into political rivals, and finally into mortal enemies.

An Iraqi soldier recalls fleeing through hell at the end of the first gulf war.

The annual worker’s holiday in the rest of the world is May Day. Why not here?

If you think that the banjo can teach us nothing about American history, Southern culture and modern race relations, then you certainly don't know the banjo.

A new history shows how neoliberalism took power during a period of crisis, which leaves open the question of whether it can be forced out as a result of one.

Solidarity between men and women workers is crucial to advancing the cause of workers in America.

"A People’s History" is bad history, albeit gilded with virtuous intentions.

In the 19th century, puddings were as popular and widespread as pasta dishes are today.

The famous historian was also an antiwar activist who went to North Vietnam in 1968 to accompany three captured US pilots back home.

A bracing and eccentric epic of espionage and hippos.

In 2018, Gerber selected baby Lucas as the winner of its Spokesbaby Contest, making Lucas the first Gerber baby with Down syndrome.

'Nothing is more dramatic than having the College Board launch an AP course in a field,' says Henry Louis Gates Jr., who helped develop the curriculum.

Amid the global threats posed by climate change, energy costs, unemployment and inequality, the need to rethink progress is now an urgent priority.

A look in on the first evolution trial.

In both versions of this question, the assumption is that there’s a pure history out there somewhere, perhaps with answers in the appendix.

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

The partisan redistricting tactics of cracking and packing aren’t merely flaws in the system—they are the system.

On the alarming origins of the current political moment.

The most vitriolic and morally panicked conservative figures of the 1990s contributed just as much to modern American conservatism as Ronald Reagan did.

When my father moved to Taiwan, a fax machine and a shared love of music bridged an ocean.

Most of these tools are based on the Consumer Price Index, a measure of changing prices in the U.S. over time

For decades, salmon, catfish, and trout traveled in America's fleet of "Fish Cars."

Bett Freeman's story and the legal precedent her case established are now forever remembered in Sheffield, Massachusetts.

A 1923 article in a fashion magazine shows the connection between flappers and social media youth organizers today.

The rise of a new tax politics has made it harder to address our problems, and now it threatens democracy, too.

They’re global icons who have left a lasting imprint on American culture. But do recent controversies threaten the squad’s future?

Public-health officials don’t need to tiptoe around how monkeypox is currently being transmitted.

How big business lies behind early efforts to encourage Americans to recycle.

The story of the thousands of free-range pigs who managed New York’s waste in the 1800s.

From November 1969 to June 1971, 89 Red Power activists seized the abandoned prison island of Alcatraz, and their own destinies.

How mapping Roman Catholic dioceses illustrates key concepts of religious ecologies at a continental scale.

The Ludlow massacre revisited.

The story behind America's iconic childhood meal.

An interview on the queer history of a forgotten prison.

In the 19th Century, homeopathy was popular because of its use of small doses, its emphasis on the curative power of nature, and its holistic treatment of the body.

Historical experts and former Carter advisers fact-check the critics who have compared Joe Biden to Jimmy Carter.

Historians are losing their audience, and searching for the next trend won’t win it back.

"Those who expected a cheap victory in a climate of complacency were shocked into reality by Selma."

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

The story of philanthropists Catherine Williams Ferguson and Isabella Marshall Graham’s unlikely interracial collaboration.

A history of the bureau and its place in the federal government.

Was the 'first Thanksgiving' merely a pretext for the bloodshed, enslavement, and displacement that would follow in later decades?

In the 1970s, gay patrol units in San Francisco and New York City rallied around their whiteness to produce a sense of safety.

The gap between academic and popular understandings of early American topics is an enduring challenge for early Americanists.

Coretta Scott King described “a major, high-level conspiracy in the assassination of my husband.” The King children remain certain of that, too.