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In the 1800s, they helped lay the groundwork for the anti-vaccine movement.

Today, we can learn a lot from the popularizing efforts that led to that consensus that Keynesianism leads to and long-lasting economic success.

That tradition of finding partners in the face of social isolation persists today.

After inheriting a box of documents from her grandfather, Marta Olmos learns more about her family's history.

Today’s special education system was shaped five decades ago, when parents fought for disabled children’s right to learn.

Karlos K. Hill investigates the disturbing photographic legacy of the Tulsa massacre and the resilience of Black Wall Street’s residents.

A story about the hidden burial grounds of Louisiana’s enslaved people, and how continued industrial development is putting the historic sites at risk.

The story of the first major black-owned record label and the mystery behind the man who created it.

A new book recovers the reputation Poe had in his own lifetime of being a cross between a science writer, a poet, and a man of letters.

How a spy came to be buried in San Francisco is a forgotten tale of adventure, intrigue, and tragedy.

Grieving family members were instrumental in the creation of a federal program to rebury and repatriate the remains of fallen soldiers after World War II.

If a Pulitzer-nominated 34-part series of investigative journalism can vanish from the web, anything can.

Researching the history of time capsules.

How we perceive the senses changes in different historical, political, and cultural contexts. Sensory historians ask what people smelled, touched and tasted.

Mabel Wilson discusses the history of racial violence and the continued vandalism and destruction of Black historical memorials in the Deep South.

The short life and long legacy of the 19th-century reformer William Apess.

An 80-by-10 grid punched into a paper card helped drive us out of the Industrial Age and into the Data Age.

Some of the earliest and most powerful anti-war songs of the Sixties era don’t mention Vietnam, but rather World War I.

Before universities profited from stolen Indigenous territory through "land-grants," schools like UNC sold Indigenous lands hundreds of miles away.

Back when most people made their clothes, one swatch could carry many stories.

A decade before Lewis and Clark, André Michaux wanted to explore the American continent. Spying for France gave him that chance.

"Virginia Arcadia: The Natural Bridge in American Art,” at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, surveys the arch as icon and propaganda.

19th century Hawai‘i attracted traders, entrepreneurs, and capitalists, who displaced, a flourishing and elaborate culture.

Since the 19th century, men have served as gatekeepers in the entertainment industry, controlling women’s careers.

Career ranger Virgil "Bus" Carrell had no design training, but "really gave a damn," say experts, about his lasting legacy.

The new agreement echoes the original 1941 version, but mentions human rights and dignity explicitly, envisioning them as a starting point for the world order.

In the six decades of his career, Bob Dylan has mined America’s past for images, characters, and events that speak to the nation’s turbulent present.

How garbage physically shaped the development of New York.

An animation of the historical trends of New York's growth since its founding.

How Ivy Litvinov, the English-born wife of a Soviet ambassador, seduced America with wit, tea and soft diplomacy.

If the Biden administration wants to address migration, it must recognize U.S. complicity in Guatemala’s problems.

How 20th-century curriculum controversies foreshadowed this summer’s wave of legislation.

The execution of Sacco and Vanzetti over ninety years ago is a reminder of how the American state treats radicals.

The Rosenbergs were executed for being Soviet spies, but their sons have spent decades trying to clear their mother’s name. Are they close to a breakthrough?

We need to do far more than “give voice to the voiceless" to win justice.

Mark Massaro reviews Jason Vuic’s “The Swamp Peddlers: How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream.”

Politicians are suddenly eager to disown failed policies on American prisons, but they have failed to reckon with the history.

In Fayette County, West Virginia, expanding the document of disaster.

Wildly popular accounts like @HistoryInPics are bad for history, bad for Twitter, and bad for you.

The incredible story of thousands of soldier photographs and letters that never made it home.

At his peak, newspapers loved to tease the inventor. They also feared him.

With help from the CIA, Paul Engle’s writing students battled Communism and eggheaded abstraction. The damage to writing still lingers.

A new book about the Lindbergh baby kidnapping focuses on the role played by the media.

Alfredo Villanueva-Collado on his J.C. Leyendecker collection and the fascinating story behind this oft-neglected male image maker.

The Apsáalooke artist has created a major new installation for her solo show at the Joslyn Art Museum using photographs of the 500 delegates taken in 1898.

Jill Lepore on disease outbreaks of pandemic proportions, media scares, and the parrot-fever panic of 1930.

Kevin Cook on the warnings NASA ignored, with tragic results.

Kodak changed the way Americans saw themselves and their country. But it struggled to reinvent itself for the digital age.

Dickens, Tocqueville, and the U.N. all agree about this American invention: It’s torture.

When a remarkable new invention by Louis Daguerre was announced by the French, it was American inventor Samuel Morse who sensed its commercial potential.