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Hispanic women and the fight for the 19th Amendment in New Mexico.

Two new books on the history of feminism emphasize global grassroots efforts and the influence of American women labor leaders on international agreements.

Historians have demonstrated how central racism has been to the formation of the U.S. But many of those same ideas have also been vital to combating white supremacy.

It basically started the wave of activism that revived the left—and taught people to get serious about power.

Anti-federalist Luther Martin's agenda failed at the Constitutional Convention, but his criticisms of the Founders may still resonate with us today.

The history of education battles — from fights over evolution to critical race theory — shows why the country’s divisions are growing sharper.

Bipartisanship might not be dead. But it is on life support. And it’s long past time we pulled the plug.

As convenient as it might be to blame the filibuster on the famous defender of slavery, the historical record is much messier.

Sexless, impersonal academic approaches tell us little about the lived experiences of the LGBT community.

John C. Calhoun knew what a strong federal government might do.

The president has skillfully played up his Irish roots, but the story of his ancestry is more complicated.

Slave ships and colonial plantations created environments that enabled doctors to study how diseases spread.

New media meets old.

When President Nixon launched the war on drugs in 1971, it set off a bloody chain reaction in Mexico as new documents reveal.

The pygmy mammoth only lived on California's Channel Islands, and was half the size of its Columbian mammoth ancestor.

On the therapeutic turn in Indigenous politics.

Nobody was listening, so she brought some rocks.

In the documentary "Fire Music," the hostile reaction that met the unusual genre soon turns into deep appreciation and a lasting influence.

The history of patrolling sex in public.

William Darity and A. Kirsten Mullen’s case for reparations.

As a biographer, Jacqueline Jones found herself wondering how she should deal with aspects of her subject’s life that left her baffled, even mystified.

Back in the 18th and 19th centuries, novels were regarded as the video games or TikTok of their age — shallow, addictive, and dangerous.

After real estate agents invented racial covenants in the early 1900s, L.A. led the nation in using them. Their idea of 'freedom' shapes the U.S. today.

As African Americans achieved economic success in Atlanta in the early 1900s, the city simmered with racial strife that was further spread by yellow journalism.

Critics of Black Lives Matter have held up King as a foil to the movement’s criticisms of law enforcement, but those are views that King himself shared.

The massive U.S. apparatus for holding immigrants has a long American tradition.

In the 1920s, radio was an exciting new mass medium. It was known for providing entertainment, but educators wondered if it could also be used for education.

In 1956, Elvis Presley was vaccinated backstage at The Ed Sullivan Show in order to encourage teenagers to get the polio vaccination.

A wide-ranging conversation with the philosopher on the white supremacist roots of liberal thought, Biden’s victory, and Trumpism without Trump.

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.