Excerpts

Exploring the history of U.S. empire through the story of Fort Huachuca – the “Guardian of the Frontier.”

In 1974, the culture wars came to Kanawha County, West Virginia, inciting protests over school curriculum.

Archaeology and genetics keep rewriting the ancient peopling of the Americas.

Putting Black characters in situations familiar to White viewers aims to build empathy and interest.

What the border fight means for one of the nation’s most potent, and most violent, myths.

Athenian democracy in the political imagination.

Philip Rieff predicted that therapy culture would end in barbarism.

These communities allowed for blending fact and fiction in creating new identities.

Reflections on Richard Wright’s recently published novel, "The Man Who Lived Underground."

The original cowboys were actually Indigenous, Black and Latinx, but that's not what Hollywood has generally led us to believe.

Updating the Registry Act and uncoupling legalization from punitive measures could be first steps.

Behind Britney Spears's struggle to regain control of her fortune and her medical decisions is a long history of robbing women of basic freedoms.

American immigration policy towards Haitians has been cruel for decades.

Newer measures of poverty may do a better job of counting America's poor, which is necessary to helping them.

Efforts to rescue African American burial grounds and remains have exposed deep conflicts over inheritance and representation.

Schools have long been ideological and physical battlegrounds — especially when it comes to citizenship and civil rights.

Artists captured and honored the intensity of the American Revolution, but the bravery and role of Black men in the war was not portrayed.

On the history of the second amendment, white militias, and border vigilantism.

What is Texas? Should we even think about so large and diverse a place as having an essence that can be distilled?

The Scottsboro Case quickly became one of the most infamous international spectacles that would eventually define the interwar period.

John Glenn's fan mail shows many girls dreamed of the stars.

Even as the United States mobilized to defeat Nazi Germany, anti-democratic forces simmered at home.

There are many black afterlives that are yet to be unearthed.

When the U.S. first encountered the “Aesthetic Apostle."

The results of Foote's simple experiments were confirmed through hundreds of tests by scientists in the US and Europe. It happened more than a century ago.

A Flourish data visualisation by Bill Black.

And then took credit for "saving" them.

Two books trace anti-police uprisings to the urban riots of the Civil Rights era. But as people took to the streets in 2020, why did so few pick up a brick?

During the war in Vietnam, there was a notorious American prison on the outskirts of Saigon: a prison for American soldiers.

The US has long had a brutal, domineering relationship with the Philippines. And crucially, it’s depended on the labor of colonized Filipinos themselves.

An excerpt from the most recent book, "Not 'A Nation of Immigrants': Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion."

The murderous hysteria over white patrimony is inseparable from the private capture of both economic opportunity and political authority.

The war in Afghanistan was nasty and brutish, marked by the same imperial arrogance that doomed U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

For his talents on the diamond and his determination off of it, Curt Flood deserves to be in the Hall of Fame.

All along the way, his eye is trained on moments of calm, locating an inherent grace, style, and sublime beauty in the Black everyday.

Can the partnership born on a maritime U.S.-U.K. summit still protect democracy?

The word “isolationist” has been used by the U.S. foreign policy establishment to narrow the range of acceptable public opinion on America’s role in the world.

Traditional environmentalism has lacked a meaningful, practical democratic vision, rendering it largely marginal to the day-to-day lives of most Americans.

As anti-vax plaintiffs seek faith-based exemptions, the judicial system will renew its struggle to determine what beliefs are truly “sincerely held.”

Did the United States have no other option but to drop atomic bombs on Japan in order to get them to surrender?

The 1963 March on Washington put a government guarantee to a job at the front of the civil rights agenda. It’s long past time to complete the work.

Why efforts to curb the cruelty of military force may have backfired.

Historian Davarian Baldwin explains how universities have come to wield the kind of power that were once hallmarks of ruthless employers in company towns.

Fissures in the feminist movement should not be buried as signs of failure but worked through as opportunities for insight.

A linguistic trajectory of Puerto Rico's identity as the world’s oldest colony.

Border wall construction is encroaching on a site where people from many cultures have interacted for thousands of years.

By offering the group as a model for present-day politics, Sarah Schulman’s history of ACT UP reproduces the movement’s failures and exclusions.

Understanding how the National Park Service Director is chosen is important for understanding the current state of our national parks system.

On race, borders and belonging.

If the press didn’t know what to make of Miss America 1992 Carolyn Sapp, they really didn’t know what to make of domestic violence.