Excerpts

Michael A. McDonnell’s book is a wonderfully researched microhistory of the Michilimackinac area from the mid-17th to the early 19th century.

Slaveholding plantations of the 19th century used scientific management techniques—and some applied them more extensively than factories.

White racial violence in America has never been a random collection of individual or unrelated crimes of passion against minorities.

An editorial to the "National Anti-Slavery Standard," republished in "Letters from New York."

A spotlight on a primary source.

The Court’s striking down of a New York gun law relies on a fundamentally anti-democratic historical record that excludes women and people of color.

As the craft beer industry reckons with its oppressive past, it may be time to re-examine the complicated history (and present) of hops in the United States

A lack of enforcement has blunted Title IX's transformative potential.

No woman should have to go through what I went through, and no woman should have to overcome barriers to obtain a safe abortion.

Federal housing policies contributed to the segregation of American cities in the twentieth century. But it was private interests that led the way.

The conservative Supreme Court's favorite judicial philosophy requires a very, very firm grasp of history — one that none of the justices seem to possess.

Elements of the Puritans’ unique worldview were handed down for generations and were carried westward by their descendants, the people we call Yankees.

Military experts seeking to identify partial skeleton in an anonymous grave.

From the fall of the Berlin Wall to 9/11, we had relative peace and prosperity. We squandered it completely.

How a feisty, suicidal Nobel laureate infuriated both Hitler and Stalin, and stalled cancer research for fifty years along the way.

How a bloody gun duel between two doctors in Transylvania sparked a frenzy of outrage—and helped create the American Medical Association.

Bombshell revelations won’t hurt the former president with his core supporters. We have only to look at Oliver North to know why.

The past does not speak to us; we speak for the past.

Black history lives in memories and minds. COVID-19 has endangered those traditions.

Green burials — the long-ago practice of laying loved ones to rest in biodegradable wooden caskets or shrouds, without embalming — are gaining in popularity.

The American socialism movement's open participation in and with the broad democratic left benefits the socialist cause.

Steve Kaslov sought to improve the civic status and rights of Romani people in the United States.

On a broiling summer afternoon in 1978, the Women's Movement held what was then known as the largest parade for feminism in history.

“I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty and for Beauty to set the world right,” W.E.B. Du Bois said in his June 1926 lecture.

Communists fighting the color line. Baseball players resisting owners. Baseball's untold history of struggles against racial injustice and labor exploitation.

Seating was segregated, and the ceremony's only Black speaker was forced to drastically revise his speech to avoid spreading "propaganda."

Amidst the January 6 hearings, the fiftieth anniversary of Nixon’s scandal reminds us that it has only gotten harder to hold presidents accountable.

New understandings of how disease spread informed Imogene Rechtin's ill-fated 1910 campaign to ban a universal human practice.

In 2015, precisely 31 years to the day of her death, blues and cabaret singer Alberta Hunter was inducted into the Memphis Music Hall of Fame.

It’s time to admit that the nation’s highest court has been a source of harm more often than it’s been a force for justice.

A confluence of cross-cultural foodways fed a series of Colorado’s mining booms, and can still be tasted across the state today.

Why reinserting race and class into our understanding of Pride is so important.

How activists can secure legal abortion with a diverse all-of-the-above movement.

The pro-life movement needs to know that such culture wars result not in outright victory for one side but in reaction and compromise.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito made reference to the legal opinions of English jurist Henry de Bracton, foreshadowing the court overturning Roe v. Wade.

The concern of this article is with the unraveling of precedent based upon a judicial philosophy known as originalism.

Why and how did D-Day succeed? The question has given postwar historians no peace.

A movement to secure payments for descendants of enslaved people rages on.

Like many patriotic songs of its time, ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ was created by fitting a popular tune with topical new lyrics.

By learning about an overlooked cohort of women who served in World War I, we can expand our understandings of memorials beyond physical statues and monuments.

When most U.S. nationals in the early republic thought of the Pacific Ocean, they conjured lands instead.

How Sioux Falls became a controversial Gilded Age “Mecca for the mismated.”

In 1897, the 25th Infantry Regiment Bicycle Corps embarked on a 1,900-mile journey from Montana to Missouri.

Emancipation Days symbolized America’s attempt to free the enslaved across the nation. But those days were unable to prevent new forms of economic slavery.

We tell the story of the Jane Collective, which provided thousands of illegal abortions fin Chicago rom 1969 to 1973, before Roe v. Wade.

A Red-Black alliance defended political prisoners and drew attention to death and prison sentences disproportionately handed out to people of color.

The recently rereleased 1979 film can teach today’s workers how to throw their weight around.

Mired in a funding crisis — and the target of politicians — the hearings transformed public broadcasting.

For 80 years, wieners have been an essential component of foreign policy.

40 years after Vincent Chin’s murder, the struggle against anti-Asian hate continues.