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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.

What I learned about American power watching the U.S. leave Vietnam — and then Afghanistan decades later.

There were Munich-style dark lagers, American bocks, and paler, pilsner-like beers.

Twenty years after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the museum is still struggling to address the legacy of those events.

Two new books argue that the War on Terror changed American politics, but what if the sources of its violence were already long present in the country?

The way we commemorate those who have made the ultimate sacrifice dates to the Civil War.

For decades, “common sense” has been a convenient framing for conservative ideas. The label hides a more complicated picture.

The rhetoric about abortion being the catalyst for the rise of the Religious Right collapses under scrutiny.

A deluge of new findings are challenging long-held scientific narratives of how humans came to North and South America.

Did people first come to this continent by land or by sea?

What role should the federal government play in building our infrastructure?

These men, who had sacrificed so much for the country, faced racist attacks in 1946 as they laid the groundwork for the civil rights movement to come.

Hitchcock and Herwig discuss their findings on the teaching of war in higher education.

The idea of history’s judgment was, and remains, seductive. Yet this notion cannot withstand scrutiny, as Joan Wallach Scott’s On the Judgment of History shows.

A warning from September 2001 about government overreach in the name of national security.

In 1905, the high court made a fateful ruling with eerie parallels to today: One person’s liberty can’t trump everyone else’s.

For more than a century, U.S. wars of invasion have claimed a humanitarian mantle.

When City Radio opened on NYC's Cortlandt Street in 1921, radio was a novelty. Over the next few decades, hundreds of stores popped up in the neighborhood.

The idealistic presidential candidate was on the verge of seizing control of the 1968 race just as Sirhan Sirhan’s bullet struck.

Remembered as symbols of strength after 9/11, the Twin Towers and their Japanese American architect were once criticized in racist and sexist terms.

After 9/11, hundreds of pieces of steel debris were catalouged. Much of it ended up in small municipal memorials and in other locations around the country.

Historically, the failures and limitations of federal policy have emboldened activists.