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The platforms are new, but the form has been around for most of a century.

In the two decades before the Hepburn Act’s enactment, two entities vied for the right to coordinate the price and distribution of coal.

Some in The Settlement, founded by formerly enslaved people, say development should be allowed to create generational Black wealth while others disagree.

Jefferson and his connection to partisanship in early America.

Which personality of the American Revolution or the founding era is remembered for the wrong reasons, and why?

The changes in popular photography.

In the contemporary United States, higher education does more to exaggerate than relieve class and cultural divisions.

The newly recovered 1787 Hungerford Deed, detailing a contentious squabble over property and prestige, can now be viewed in a new virtual exhibition.

At the South Carolina State House, the history of Reconstruction has been systemically erased from view.

The daring women whose transatlantic journeys challenged gender roles.

His time working for Monsanto and other polluting industries helped make him the fierce conservative he is today.

How medical humanitarianism helped facilitate exploitation of Africa.

Warnings against "normalizing" outrageous political acts misstate the problem. It’s never the immediate present that gets normalized — it’s the not-so-distant past.

Historical traces of racism and exclusion remain on the island. It’s just that new residents can’t—or won’t—read them.

What the Dred Scott v. Sandford case meant for black citizenship.

The fallout of the January 6th riot and its effect on D.C. statehood.

Divisive concepts, critical race theory, and more in 2021.

We ascribe too much meaning to the early years of the republic.

Take any major American city and you’re likely to find a historically Black neighborhood demolished, or cut off from the rest of the city by a highway.

During the 1860 presidential election, political parties dueled over the intent of the framers.

Novelists concocted elaborate fake histories for mysterious caves in Virginia.

We know why they were built and why they have to come down.

Characterized throughout American history as symbols of crisis, trauma, and grief, these women reject those narratives through world-making of their own.

Historical perspective on school integration.

Questlove’s debut as a director, the documentary "Summer of Soul," revisits a musical event that encapsulated the energies of Harlem in the 1960s.

An architectural historian invites us to sit with her awhile on the American porch.

Dogs were prolific hunters and warm companions for northeastern Native peoples like the Mi'kmaq.

The origins of the Big Apple dance.

The KKK violently resisted the revolutionary gains of the Civil War and Reconstruction, and sought to keep the black masses toiling in submission.

Actions are more persuasive than words, and manipulating morale often dictates how commanders deploy their troops. Witness the American War of Independence.

There have been at least eight provinces in British North America labeled the "fourteenth colony." They cannot all claim the same title.

Elite merchants put up a statue of a British slave trader. A band of protesters toppled it. Who decides what happens now?

The Supreme Court and the pursuit of racial equality.

Long before Trump, politicians on the country’s West Coast mobilized a white working-class base through violent hate of Chinese and Japanese immigrants.

Whether economic times are good or bad, the lament for the old days of factories and mills never changes.

Spencer Ackerman’s new book argues that the forever wars created the conditions for Trump’s rise.

W.E.B. Du Bois’s exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition offered him a chance to present the dramatic gains made by Black Americans since the end of slavery.

One famous image of the president features a body that isn't his.

The ghosts of the uranium boom continue to haunt the land, water and people.

Approaching the 20th anniversary of the attacks, the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center faces a reckoning.

A government-funded group called the Writers' War Board got writers and illustrators to portray the United States positively—and its enemies as evil.

While they never intended for more than 45 million Americans to have this much debt, policymakers in the 1960s made fateful choices.

Parallels between the American Revolution and the U.S. Capitol riot.

Vaccines against smallpox during the Revolutionary War are one example of how mandates have protected the health of Americans for more than two centuries.

Hell hath no fury like a man with a vaginal douche named after him.

America did exactly what the Kerner Commission on the urban riots of the mid-1960s advised against, and fifty years later reaped the consequences it predicted.

Letting panic about fertility rates drive policy is dangerous.

Pvt. Felix Hall’s killers were never brought to justice.

In a city of ambitious influencers, a shadow cabinet hopes it can summon a new New Deal.

A favorite icon of critical race theory proponents doesn’t say what they want him to say.