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In 1969, a group of Puerto Rican youth in East Harlem leveraged a garbage problem to demand reform.

Even before the United States regulated migration, states did. Here’s why.

The author of ‘Founding Brothers’ tries to capture the breadth of the War for Independence in a single narrative.

The Legacy Museum lands at a time when racial violence is on the rise and critical race theory is used to prevent America’s racist past being taught in schools.

In 2011, a grassroots anticapitalist movement galvanized people with its slogan “We are the 99 percent.” It changed me, and others, but did it change the world?

A six-hour workday could have become the national standard during the Great Depression. Here's the story of why that didn't happen.

Far from a relic of the past, September 11 continues to normalize previously unimaginable forms of state-sanctioned barbarity.

Will the Black body ever have the opportunity to rest in peace?

Reflection on the importance of sex in the spiritual redemption narratives that riveted the American public.

Among P. T. Barnum's “human curiosities” was a supposed escapee from an Ottoman harem, marketed as both the pinnacle of white beauty and an exotic other.

With all organized religions supporting vaccination, states may question the sincerity of those claiming exemptions from getting vaccinated.

On the ways that people have conflated freedom with whiteness but pays too little attention to the force of freedom as a concept.

On early American attempts to kick out foreigners.

It’s time to fight for the original and heretofore unachieved goals of the women’s movement.

For two centuries, black women have linked their ballot access to the human rights of all.

An inquiry into a utopian vision of abolitionism.

Before it ubiquitously meant the National Rifle Association, the NRA had a very different meaning.

The 1619 Project offers bitterness, fragility, and intellectual corruption—not history.

But today’s activism reflects longstanding commitments to freedom.

The Supreme Court is quietly gutting one of the United States’ most important civil rights statutes.

A new book explores how George Washington shaped the group of advisors as an institution to meet his own needs.

Historians have been too much the ideological allies of Progressivism to permit themselves to see its master flaw.

Why the framers created the Electoral College — and why we need to get rid of it.

A lost volume of American history finds the light of day.

On the continued revolutionary rhetoric and ideology that persisted in America even after the American Revolution.

Enabling sustained minority rule at the national level is not a feature of our constitutional design, but a perversion of it.

How Upton Sinclair’s 1934 run for governor of California inspired a cult.

Troy Davis' death at the hands of the state on Sept. 21, 2011, transformed Occupy and kindled Black Lives Matter.

Former occupiers are working to transform the system from inside and out.

Oakland’s lopsided boom.

A challenge to the "Standard Model" scholars who hold that the Second Amendment protects individual gun rights.

The Iroquois, Shawnee, Cherokee, and other political formations generally separated military and civil leadership and guarded certain personal freedoms.

The movement launched a generation of leftist activists –and gave them a vision of real change.

A review of a book by Sean Wilentz's "No Property in Man," which argues that the document is full of anti-slavery language.

From the very beginning, the problem with the US involvement in Afghanistan lay essentially in the deficits in American democracy.

The Constitution of 2018 is not the Constitution written by the Framers in 1787, and no one should wish otherwise.

As an attorney, Derrick Bell worked on many civil-rights cases, but his doubts about their impact launched a groundbreaking school of thought.

Elon Musk and the rise of Silicon Valley’s strange trickle-down science.

Conservatives and liberals both cite the nation’s charter, but they’re not talking about the same parts of it.

"Hispanic" as the name of an ethnicity is contested today. But the category arose from a political need for unity.

Zooming in on the places where early women photographers could build a career.

“I was shocked to learn that Hispanic conservatives celebrate Cortes’s arrival in Mexico.”

Two new books look at the history of Latinx Democrats and Republicans and the role each will play in the future.

In a planned highway widening project, 94 percent of displaced residents live in communities mostly consisting of Black and Brown people.

Reflections on the latest public debate between historians about the causes of the American Revolution.

On the spectacular act of terrorism that took place in Manhattan a century ago.

Every medical intervention—even one with a centuries-long history—brings dangers, some of which become clear only later.

Gender and stuttering in the early twentieth-century United States.

The Viking missions set the gold standard for landing on Mars, but they couldn't resolve the big question — are we alone?

What the history of a gesture can tell us about Black creative power.