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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.

In the 19th century, Americans dumped poor migrants overseas. Now some governors are shipping them off to other states.

Another chance to examine the terms we use and why they matter.

In 1908, Eugene Debs eulogized John Brown as America's "greatest liberator," vowing the Socialist Party would continue Brown's work. We publish it here in full.

How a legal footnote in a Santa Clara County railroad case and the judges who built on it created modern models of corporate personhood.

An explanation of the Manhattan Company, a bank disguised as a municipal water corporation that helped to transform Early Republican politics.

Even within itself, the China trade was a complex, multisided, many-splendored thing.

How printers in the 1770s assembled the news for their papers, how they used the postal system, and how they may have approached Twitter.

The longest-running party in America has seen significant shifts in its ideological and geographic makeup.

Let’s consider the significance and responsibility of outlining, drafting, and shaping our nation as the Founding Fathers put pen to paper.

An interactive data report presents the impact of structural racism on Philadelphia, mapping 2019’s homicides and present day disadvantage with 1930s redlining maps.

A new book catalogs the alarming events that created one of the West’s most polluted bodies of water.

E.T. was jello in a T-shirt. The Mummy was scratchy potpourri. For Foley artists, deception is an essential part of the enterprise.

The idea of Asian Americans as a “model minority” has a long and complicated history.

Interactive map shows Milwaukee’s housing patterns reflect not only aesthetic trends but also how historical events like immigration, war and civil rights shaped the city.

On school funding and America’s kleptocratic public school divide.

How Stanley Kubrick’s film “Dr. Strangelove” exposed dangers inherent in nuclear command-and-control systems.

A review of how author Jody Rosen depicts the history of the bicycle, mixing the personal with the factual.

They can wreck your eyes, and they can land you 14 years in jail for shining one at a police chopper. But where did they come from?

Presley never wrote a memoir. Nor did he keep a diary. His music could have been a window into his inner life, but he didn’t even write his songs.

All the articles from the University of Virginia's student newspaper covering the "Unite the Right" rally, and the grief, activism, and reforms it sparked.

A legendary singer on faith, loss, and a family legacy.

He held multiple allegiances during the Revolution, all of which were connected or stemmed from the importance he placed on familial self-preservation.

Why universities must help lead the battle to defend and expand critical race theory.

When the night-club sensation became a Resistance agent, the Nazis never realized what she was hiding in the spotlight.

“I came to the realization that taking to the streets to fight social revolution in this country is like ‘spitting in the wind; it will fly back into your face.”

The Federal Reserve keeps increasing interest rates to try to bring prices down — but that may erase gains by non-White workers.

A history of techno.

When Susan Struck fought being discharged for pregnancy from the US Air Force, it brought the right to choose into a different light.

Making the case for why U.S. history only makes sense when told as a binational story.

The question of whether or not one served, or was willing to serve, or would be willing to serve, goes deeper than name-calling and allegations of draft dodging.

Chin’s killing, 40 years ago, has inspired documentaries, young-adult books, and countless works of scholarship. What do we want from his story, and the people who tell it?

Country music has often stood, as it were, with one foot in and one foot out of the cave.

Recruits learned the arts of infiltration, sabotage, and survival at a hidden base on Santa Catalina Island.

The Combahee River Collective and E. Franklin Frazier’s Black Bourgeoisie agree that the wealthy and powerful will hijack activist energies for their own ends.

A new book challenges the dominant narrative that malls are dying.

Sappony tobacco farmers across generations, and across state borders, when North Carolina and Virginia law diverged on tribal recognition, education, and segregation.

It's been a remarkable transformation over 162 years.

How does a plant become a crime?

Malaria — literally, if not scientifically, "bad air" — once claimed Washingtonians by the score. So why did some doctors believe it wasn't real?

Twenty-five years of neoliberal political economy are to blame for today's regime of surveillance advertising, and only public policy can undo it.

Hamilton is less a new vision of the past than a translation of the sacred stories of American civil religion into the vernacular.

San Bernardino County may explore seceding from California. Many of the earliest separatists wanted to transform Southern California into a slave state.

History shows that targeted price caps work when accompanied by a public campaign.