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On Pierrepoint B. Noyes, H.G. Wells, and the “Superweapons” of early science-fiction.

NYC history suggests that the Left might profitably revive proportional representation as a tool to build its electoral strength.

Gender-segregated bathrooms tell a story about who is and who is not welcome in public life.

The true cost of the immigration policy can be measured in the generations of Chinese Americans who were never born.

The president who built his fan base on isolationism is pivoting to a kind of imperialism that the U.S. hasn’t seen in decades.

Why is America’s near-mythic dynasty so nasty up close?

New York City’s renewed efforts to tackle homelessness and untreated mental illness is raising questions about civil liberties, safety and effective care.

Supreme Court rulings on gun laws highlight the struggle to balance individual rights and public safety.

He’ll run into the same roadblocks as Presidents Taft, Roosevelt, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush, among others.

What the President’s confrontations with Panama, Greenland, Canada, and Colombia suggest about his expansionist vision.

It wouldn’t take much, the fan explained, just some radioactive material inside the players, who would then undergo a physical examination.

It made itself bigger.

A new book traces the rise of the Israel lobby and the challenges it has faced as global criticism of Israel has intensified.

While hosting a conference featuring his defense of "Southern Slavery," Douglas Wilson exposes the radicalism of his growing "Christian" empire.

Culture warriors envision a future in which the educational power of universities will be harnessed to the propagation of a “biblical worldview” nationwide.

Frances Perkins’ challenged the United States’ restrictive immigration policies as FDR’s Secretary of Labor.

What we should learn from Senator Abraham Ribicoff’s failed attempt.

Forty years ago, the Senate supported school busing—until a 32-year-old changed his mind.

In memory of Martin Luther King Jr, a look back on his funeral.

From the pianoforte to the smartphone, each wave of tech has sparked fears of brain rot. But the problem isn’t our ability to focus—it’s what we’re focusing on.

Depictions of Antietam couldn’t possible capture the magnitude of the battle’s horror.

We need to bring back the celebratory atmosphere that animated Election Day in the 19th century.

The Catholic order has branches all over the world, and a deep history of unethical and illegal behavior.

A new book questions what we think we know about heterosexuality and Latter-day Saints, or Mormons.

Publishing needs his democratic spirit.

We categorized songs in the Billboard Top 10 to see if love songs are on the decline.

The stories of two Muslim immigrants who fought for the Union show that the American Civil War was an international fight.

The uproar over Trump’s remarks about the Canal recalls a lively debate from the late 1970s.

Does the text mean what it plainly says?

He's not the first to set his sights on the island.

I covered the 1989 fight over George H.W. Bush's secretary of defense nominee. It feels awfully familiar.

By threatening to reclaim the Panama Canal, Trump is evoking false stories about U.S. beneficence.

What does the Jewish experience in the Revolutionary War say about America?

Washington Cathedral’s break with Confederate memory.

You know that punchy percussive sound popularized by Phil Collins and Prince? This is where it came from.

Elon Musk’s defenders were quick to claim that his hand motion was actually an ancient “Roman salute” — but that gesture never existed.

The connections between the first president’s commitment to agricultural innovation and his evolving attitudes toward his enslaved laborers at Mount Vernon.

On Jazz Age gay culture and its backlash.

A language of the air.

The fleet provided activists with reliable transportation in hostile and often dangerous environments.

After the Civil War, Andrew Johnson issued the biggest act of presidential clemency in our history. It angered his party and led to his eventual impeachment.

Any attempt to revive solidarity between rich and poor nations must begin by recapturing the commitment to social and economic rights that inspired the WHO.

A historian of U.S. empire discusses nuclear Greenland, selling Puerto Rico, and the renaissance of William McKinley.

What was the liberal #Resistance "Twitterstorian"? And what did commentators like Heather Cox Richardson morph into during the Biden years?

Two new biographies enhance our knowledge of John Lewis, the late congressman and civil rights hero.

The “Groypers,” the furthest-right fringe of Trump’s coalition, want the party to adopt an overtly white nationalist agenda.

The Dole pineapple plantation has a destructive history of transforming the Hawaiian Islands—something that continues today in the tourism industry.

Black-authored print was central to James G. Birney’s conversion from enslaver to abolitionist and presidential candidate.

Dinner parties in the capital have long been a path to power, but Perle Mesta had her eye on a different prize.

Trump's foreign policy is not as unprecedented as it seems.