Excerpts

Why did a predominantly black district have streets named after Southern generals? In Hollywood, Florida, one man thought it was time for change.

A new history sees the authors of the Declaration as moral agents, and sets out to capture the thinking behind the principles.

West understood more clearly than anyone the allure of Communism for educated Westerners.

In the work of writers like W.B. Yeats and Virginia Woolf, we can find new ways to tell our own stories.

Uptake of COVID vaccines for kids has been slow, but it has been slow for other vaccines too.

Many of the Communists who felt destined for a life of radicalism experienced their lives as irradiated by a kind of expressiveness that made them feel centered.

A conversation with Louisa Hall about her novel, “Trinity.”

Be Woke presents Black History in two minutes (or so).

Stuart compares the shared values of Christian nationalists and the Nation of Islam in the 1960's and today.

The father of game theory helped develop the atom bomb—and thought he could calculate when to use it.

As the HBO series The Gilded Age suggests, charity allowed wealthy women to play a visible role in public life. It was also a site of inter-class animosity.

West Ford’s descendants want to prove his parentage—and save the freedmen’s village he founded.

In 1990, activists — many fighting for their lives — staged one of the biggest AIDS demonstrations in history. Here’s how it played out, in the words of those who were there.

Over its 13-year run, Vee Jay built a roster that left a lasting impact on every genre of music.

It’s a chance to spotlight the challenges for women, especially mothers, in the workplace.

During World War II, movie studios went to pains not to alienate the Nazis.

In the middle of the past century, a gentle crew of puppets united the TV watchers of America.

Studying the aftermath of the evacuation from Tripoli provides perspective on the current fallout from the withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The vaccination skepticism of today is rooted in postwar social movements, prompting a new generation of parents and children to question drugs and doctors.

How people understood disabilities in the 18th century, in contrast to contemporary interpretation, requires historical nuance.

Theresa Malkiel fled persecution in Russia and ended up in a New York sweatshop.

We often associate dance with art and performance, but it is also a way that humans document, interpret, and create history.

How a team of fearless American women overcame medical skepticism to stop whooping cough, a vicious infectious disease, and save countless lives.

History has paid little attention to Bridget Kennedy, JFK’s widowed great-grandmother, who managed both her family and business in Boston's anti-Irish climate.

Nixon portrayed himself as a victim of the press. But from the 1952 Checkers speech through his post-presidency, he proved to be an able manipulator of the media.

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s iconic speech, annotated with relevant scholarship on the literary, political, and religious roots of his words.

Russia has become an ally in a global movement.

For more than a century, Western oil companies have cycled into and out of Russia.

Why did William F. Buckley campaign to free Edgar Smith?

A review of ”Man Ray: The Artist and His Shadows” by Arthur Lubow.

These things happen, in all our Harlems, every single day. If we ignore this fact, and our common responsibility to change this fact, we are sealing our doom.

Let us let the ghosts of the megafauna rise, but let us leave the old imperialists to lie in their graves undisturbed.

Family paintings led me to a revolutionary society my mother’s grandfather was a member of and whose story was interwoven with Eastern European Jews.

Congress hasn't declared it often. The U.S. has fought a lot of war anyway. How?

The fate of the League of Nations provides a stark warning about using sanctions as a tool of modern warfare.

Political activists Greta Thunberg and Helen Keller have been just as misunderstood by their supporters as by their detractors.

A Black cowboy named George McJunkin found a site that would transform views about the history of Native Americans in North America.

The 1872 act that established the nature preserve provoked Lakota assertions of sovereignty.

NATO expansion - the trigger for Russia's attack on Ukraine?

Japanese Americans enter the frame of everyday Midwestern lives.

During the American Revolution, the British 29th Regiment had a tradition of including Black drummers into its ranks.

On the evening of 16 December 1835, a fire broke out near Wall Street. It swept away 674 buildings and though devastation seemed absolute, citizens quickly rebuilt.

Built on the momentum of earlier struggles for justice, the department store movement channeled the power of store workers and consumers to promote black freedom.

American pundits say Putin is undermining the international order. But the ability of great powers to ignore the rules is a lamentable part of the system.

A history of imperial forgetting.

A review of “The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War."

His approval rating hit historic lows, his party was fractious, crises were everywhere. But Truman rescued his presidency, and his legacy.

The history of the left in the United States is a history of betrayal.

The history of the movement is one of unlikely success. But what can we learn from embattled experiments like prescribed heroin? 

The language sustained a Jewish diasporan secular culture. Today, that heritage survives in a gritty corner of Queens to be claimed by a new generation.