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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.

The regulatory reforms of the railroad and trucking industries are models for evidence-based, bipartisan policymaking.

High unemployment is extremely dangerous.

City planner John B. Williams — and the photographic archive he commissioned — give us the opportunity to complicate received stories of failed urban renewal.

Using records digitized in part by amateur genealogists, economists have upended conventional wisdom about which immigrants succeed and why.

Focusing on a virus’s origins encourages individualized shame while ignoring the broader societal factors that contribute to a disease’s transmission.

In retrospect, it was peculiar but not surprising that the Jewish-American novel peaked early—halfway through the beginning, to be precise.

The legacies of our racial past, and the prospects ahead for an embattled republic.

To many urban Americans in the 1920s, the car and its driver were tyrants that deprived others of their freedom.

Visualizing the legacy of slavery and redlining, 1860 to the present.

Many don’t realize Newport, Rhode Island launched more slave trading voyages than anywhere else in North America.

How right-wing school panics seek to repeal modernity and progress.

On July 1, 1916, a young stockbroker from Philadelphia headed into the surf at Beach Haven, N.J.

In the absence of tax dollars, American cities like Baltimore are now funding themselves by fining the poor instead of taxing the rich.

No longer home to the open-road outlaws and concrete cowboys of the ’70s, becoming a trucker is now the equivalent of operating a sweatshop on wheels thanks to deregulation.

In the modern Olympics’ early days, painters, sculptors, writers and musicians battled for gold, silver and bronze.

The "Christian Amendment" and the push for Christianity to be established as the national religion of the United States.

The rise of popular literature for children put a story, a role model, and a set of values in a young boy’s pocket.

The uses and abuses of history through the "diary" of Thomas Fallon.

The work of three women, in particular, helped pass this landmark legislation.

Despite the repeal of Prohibition, alcohol consumption was an enormous political issue for many white American Protestants.

How the study of historical memory created a new reckoning with the creation of “American history."

The Smithsonian’s first update to its collection policy in 20 years proposes ethical returns and shared ownership. But will it bring transformational change?

Indigenous Americans knew how to avoid starvation. Colonists were too hungry to notice.

Inside a famous Cold War deception.

The British were a pain, to be sure, but what really caused him trouble were his teeth.

A trio of books depict the true narrative of the massacres within Indonesia in 1965.

An eloquent portrait of underground life among the undocumented and the damned of the earth.

The foremost challenge of Grant’s day has not gone away. His response to it merits our attention.

Contrary to contemporary claims, Susan B. Anthony and her peers rarely discussed abortion, which only emerged as a key political issue in the 1960s.

Their main objective was to draw attention to racist state policies and demand their repeal.

How “undue burden”—a concept nurtured by anti-abortion groups and championed by the first woman on the Supreme Court—has eroded the right to choose.

In the 1930s, the Federal Writers’ Project interviewed 300 formerly enslaved Virginians to share their oral histories.

The lack of investment in neighborhoods has resulted in communities of color living in areas far hotter than those of their white neighbors.

Enslaved women's use of birth control, abortifacients, and even infanticide showed that they resisted by exerting control over their reproductive lives.

How nonprofits went from essential service providers to vehicles for programs shaped and approved by capital.

Now is a critical time to acquire a better understanding of this misunderstood and oversimplified philosophy known as Neomercantilism.

A new digital archive from UVA Carter G. Woodson Institute and Center for Digital Editing explores the late Civil Rights leader’s life, legacy, and writings.

Texas education officials have preliminarily voted to reject a Mexican-American history textbook that scholars have said was riddled with inaccuracies.

Even the most mundane of objects associated with the Founding Father have a story.

Russian serfdom and American slavery ended within two years of each other; the defenders of these systems of bondage surprisingly shared many of the same arguments.

The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.

The industry's price-gouging economic model was engineered by Wall Street and its political enablers—and only Washington can fix it.

The South must reform its attitude toward the Negro. The North must reform its attitude toward common labor. 

It will help black Americans to recall that they have a history that transcends victimization and exclusion.

The euphonia, the phonograph, and the gendering of nineteenth century mechanical speech.