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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.

In the seven decades since his mysterious death, bluesman Robert Johnson’s legend has grown.

"The blues was born on a riverboat between Louisville and New Albany, along those docks, in the 1890s. I mean, the blues was born nowhere, of course. Or it was born many places."

A personal account of how one young woman travels to South Carolina in search of her family history and freedom narrative.

Louis Moore discusses Bill Bruton and the erasure of his activism towards integration in Major League Baseball.

Philadelphia gave America its flag, along with other enduring icons of nationhood. But for many, the red, white and blue banner embodies a legacy of injustice.

Companies and individuals are considered grandfathered and exempt from new sets of regulations all the time. But the term and the concept dates to a darker era.

Mystery sorrounds the life of alumnus Homer Smith, who spent decades on an international odyssey to find a freedom in a place he could call home.

Accountability is crucial as we remember the individuals and communities harmed by our institutions and call for retroactive justice.

Finding struggle and resilience on a road trip through the birthplace of the blues.

The Atlantic’s editor endorsed Abraham Lincoln for presidency in the 1860 election, correctly predicting it would prove to be “a turning-point in our history.”

Covering the island has been a central concern for The Nation since the beginning—producing scoops, aiding diplomacy, and pushing for a change in policy.

In 1803 one of the largest mass suicides of enslaved people took place when Igbo captives from what is now Nigeria were taken to the Georgia coast.

From the Statehouse to Lucas Oil Stadium, Arab American immigrants have made contributions across Indianapolis, according to IUPUI's Edward Curtis.

The provision, which makes it a felony to talk about abortion online, has been on hold since the Clinton administration. Could it be enforced in the future?

Unearthing the deep roots of racialized voter suppression—and explaining how they shape ballot access today.

How did the controversial term go from middle-school slang to verboten? The answer lies on the other side of the Atlantic.

A pile of mammoth bones offers evidence that people were living in the region as early as 37,000 years ago.

What shark attacks in 1916 could tell us about the midterms in 2022.

The case for making the street more like the pleasure road Frederick Law Olmsted intended.

How “Vaudeville’s worst act” fought for fame and respect on the stage.

American Democratic Socialism has deep roots in the very “American” values it is accused of undermining.

Abortion and "The Scarlet Letter."

Examining the ingredients—time, grain, government regulations—that have made bourbon an enduring national favorite.

Non-meat proteins have a long history – and are looking more like the necessary food of the future.

The religious origins of American liberalism.

“The circulating medium… is abused like all good things, but without it you would not have had your Horace and Virgil.”

How an intense unclassifiable relationship shaped the history of modern thought.

The two prevailing historical visions of Louis Agassiz — one gentle and reverential, the other rigid and bigoted — may simply be two sides of the same coin.

She was Helen Keller before Helen Keller. Then her mentor abandoned their studies.

Long before the gallery she built was famously robbed, Isabella Stewart Gardner was shocking 19th-century society with her disregard for convention.

On June 15, 1846, Francis Parkman Jr., a young, Harvard-educated historian, arrived at Fort Laramie, Wyoming, to begin his journey along the Oregon Trail.

Watergate led to a landmark law designed to limit the influence of money in politics. Today, some say the scandal isn’t what’s illegal, it’s what’s legal.

Dorothea Dix and Franklin Pierce were in many ways ideological soulmates, but he would not help her effort to improve conditions for the mentally ill.

Why the war started, how the Allies won, and why the world has never been the same.

Poplar—ubiquitous in timber, landscape design, and Indigenous medicines—holds new promise in recuperating damaged ecosystems.

31-year-old Cleveland mayor Dennis Kucinich took a stand against the sale of his city’s publicly owned electric utility. And he almost paid for it with his life.

Ukraine didn’t become an epicenter of world history all of a sudden; it became an epicenter again.

It has taken decades for an appreciation of Stein’s crime fiction to really take hold.

U.S.-China relations have evolved from tense standoffs to a complex mix of intensifying diplomacy, growing international rivalry, and increasingly intertwined economies.

Is blues music a thing of the past? A festival in Memphis featuring musicians of all ages and nationalities shouts an upbeat answer.

On the relationship between African American music traditions and one of the most infamous slave revolts, the Stono Rebellion, in colonial South Carolina.

King recalled: “I liked his voice, though I had no idea he was getting ready to conquer the world.”

Why have historians overlooked the connections between abolitionism and the famous New England cultural movement?

The often forgotten takeover of St. Louis by workers showed that the U.S. isn't immune to Paris Commune–style eruptions of class consciousness.

Two of the earliest films to depict the bombing of Hiroshima show how politics shapes national mourning.

The tendency to favor interest in resource extraction over the protection of the state’s waters, vital to the native Ojibwe population, has deep historical roots.