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What will be the legacy of the Black Arts Movement? Ishmael Reed reflects on the transformation and growth of Black arts since the 1960s.

Hundreds of classic cartoons vanished without warning. How can you raise your kids on favorites you can’t access anymore?

In 1877, one million workers went on strike and fought police and federal troops in cities across America.

Heirs to an iconic fortune sought out a wealth manager who would assuage their progressive consciences. Now their dispute is exposing dynastic secrets.

A disastrous oil spill in Alaska and massive rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico revealed a pattern of unsettled standards and inconsistent oversight.

How the CIA tried to trick the Soviets with sex dolls (but ultimately got screwed).

The school was funded by colonial taxation of tobacco grown by forced labor on colonized Indian lands.

History and controversy in the architecture of the Latter-day Saints.

A Steel City bibliography of Pittsburgh.

They were made by Alexander Graham Bell and his fellow researchers between 1881 and 1892

Americans helped spread a right-wing version of evangelical Christianity in Brazil. Now it has played a role in an insurrection.

Looking back at half a century of truth-telling and rebelling.

Any critical take on public monuments today must confront the reality that public lands are themselves colonized lands.

Stephanie St. Clair, who gained notoriety as a criminal entrepreneur and a fashion icon, was a powerful Black woman able to wrest control in a world run by men.

Robert Greenstein isn’t a household name. But his career lobbying for the poor has changed the lives of millions of Americans.

New technology has facilitated the transportation of oil, but spills remain a risk.

Political scientist Richard Bensel explains the feedback loops between policy commitments of political elites and the regional distribution of political power.

A historian’s journey into the relationship between Alexander Darnes and Edmund Kirby Smith starts with a surprising eulogy.

In the 1960s, white Appalachian workers attempted to put down roots in Chicago by building an integrated model neighborhood called Hank Williams Village.

Martin Luther King’s words are available publicly — for a price.

One war, in one city, Philadelphia, and the fate of the men, women, and children left behind as collateral damage in the wake of conflict.

Conservative “populism” has never been about egalitarianism, but about mobilizing support for traditional hierarchies.

The great grand strategist of the Cold War believed he failed in his most important task.

The investigative committee singles out Trump for his role in the attack. As prosecution, the report is thorough. But as historical explanation it’s a mess.

A form of entertainment and outgrowth of desperation, self-styled rainmakers allowed the powerless people of the Great Plains to seemingly take action.

White American empire transformed Minnesota into an agricultural and extraction-based economy that uprooted Dakota from their traditional homelands.

The most important third party in the history of American politics is one you may never have heard of before.

A Black Power radical, a Navy veteran, and the story behind the most boring channel on television.

A look at socialism’s far-reaching influence on American thought.

From the machine politicians in La Villita to the radicals in Pilsen, Mexican Chicagoans have played a central role in defining their city. 

The hidden story of a 180-year-old union-busting spy agency.

Why does the government have the power to break massive union strikes? Part of the story is a history of conciliatory railway unionism.

Black refugees’ journey from Virginia to Boston after the Civil War.

The remains of more than 100,000 Native Americans are held by prestigious U.S. institutions, despite a 1990 law meant to return them to tribal nations.

For all the clouds of publicity, the dream machine is actually a craft business. Have we asked too much of it?

Great-power competition demands persuasion, not coercion.

The intertwined history of education, history, and patriotism in the United States.

The use of ‘y'all’ has often been seen as vulgar, low-class and uncultured. That’s starting to change.

The Supreme Court has watered down the policy’s core justification: justice.

A new history of the environmental movement places too much emphasis on famous figures like Rachel Carson and shies away from confronting failures.

The House speaker fight was eerily reminiscent of 1923 — but the differences between the two will drive what comes next.

The album was once king. Now it’s the live show.

Mr. Shakespeare's team oversaw ads and on-air events that reflected the rising power of television as a political tool.

If fact-checking could fix us, we’d be a utopia by now.

A new book examines military manuals as a genre to understand what armed counter-revolutionaries think of as the right way to do what they do.

The Pointer Sisters, the Great Migration, and the soul of country.

The Framers would have never tolerated debt-limit brinkmanship. It’s time to put this terrible idea on trial.

Archaeology and genetics can’t yet agree on when humans first arrived in the Americas. That’s good science, and here’s why.

A century ago, a false accusation sparked the destruction of the Florida community.

The history of speakership contests underscores the corner Kevin McCarthy is painted into and the corner any Republican House leader is likely to face.