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Historian Gerald Horne has developed a grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress—right down to the present day.

An overhyped new paradigm proved to be a slogan without a movement.

Race is a social fiction imposed by the powerful on those they wish to control.

A whistleblower says new construction on an old plantation would disrupt important historic sites, including possibly unmarked graves of enslaved people.

At the turn of the century, Mexican American publications paid a price for challenging the local sheriff and elements of the Texas Rangers.

When the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the future of affirmative action, I knew I had to be there.

For nearly 50 years, commercial radio companies only employed white broadcasters to target information and entertainment to mainstream America.

From a bus line named Jim Crow to racial violence at public parks, racism shaped Philadelphia. Can we imagine a more equitable city?

People have been drinking eggnog for hundreds of years. Here's where it originated and how it became a traditional holiday drink.

A new book argues that the American right emerged out of a backlash to multiracial democracy following the Civil War.

A new book sets out to discover how Americans became such creatures of the seven-day week.

Georgia’s own history highlights what out-organizing voter suppression really entails.

Congress was able to break the rail strike last week because of a century-old law designed to weaken the disruptive power of unions.

A popular writer’s 1829 self-help book ‘The Frugal Housewife’ was based on the same democratic principles that made her a champion of the abolitionist cause.

This long overdue tribute honors historian W. E. B. Du Bois, who died on August 27, 1963.

The history of segregation in the Navy — and its abolition — show how to combat institutionalized bigotry.

None of it happened by mistake.

Maybe the United States was doomed from the start. And Jean-Jacques Rousseau can explain why.

Bankman-Fried is the latest in a long string of notorious characters who moved their business to the island nation.

Sen. Raphael Warnock and challenger Herschel Walker, both Black, square off in a contest designed to empower White voters.

Governors Ron DeSantis and Gretchen Whitmer took opposite approaches to covid in swing states — but each sailed to reelection.

James K. Polk is considered one of the most successful presidents, even though he did not seek reelection.

The early controversy over whether or not to build the Washington Monument on the National Mall.

Adam Smith and Friedrich Hayek have been through the wringer.

What the story of the Grimke family tells us about race in the United States.

Rail deregulation led to consolidation, price-gouging, and a variant of just-in-time unloading that left no slack in the system.

How stadiums in Qatar connect to a bridge in Kentucky and a dam in West Virginia.

Stories of 1776 and Santa Claus.

How stories of abuse in minority religious communities have influenced American culture.

As organized labor lost strength, the Democratic Party turned to professional-class voters to shore up its base.

The inventory he provided to tax assessors reveals just how profitable privateering was during the Revolutionary era.

In New England, the birds were once hunted nearly to extinction; now they’re swarming the streets like they own the place. Sometimes turnabout is fowl play.

“For those Afro-Caribbean Panamanian who had lived through Panama’s Canal Zone apartheid, Brooklyn segregation probably came as no surprise.”

A real (but mostly forgotten) patent conjures a world that could have been.

The more liberals present originalist arguments, the more they legitimate originalism.

How the rural Arizona border county embodies the political shift in much of America.

In Virginia, the land still owned by the Coles family could yield billions in uranium. Does any of that wealth belong to the descendants of the enslaved?

Christian slavery and white supremacy.

More than 500 historians signed onto this letter of support for the demands of railway workers.

On the of role white supremacist ideas in enforcing slavery in the U.S. in the 19th century.

Predicting a hurricane in nineteenth-century South Carolina.

Some rail unions are resisting government pressure to accept a new employment contract, but history suggests the authorities will keep the trains running.

How Americans lost faith in the possibility of self-government.

“This dramatic display of unity may well inspire the Negro residents of other Southern cities to similar action.”

Olympic track and field athlete reflects on the exclusion of African Americans from professional sports and the role his brother Jackie played in changing that.

Attacking presentism as a mindset of younger scholars doesn’t solve any of the historical profession's problems.

An Olympic runner reflects on segregation and her first experiences with integrated sports events.

How Miss Millie taught the Civil War.

Previously only rumored to exist, the two-minute film depicts a Mardi Gras parade from 1898.

The presidency of Theodore Roosevelt and his creation of the modern "performer" president.