Excerpts

Debunking the myths of the domestic slave trade.

Originally, the term referred to a specific kind of foreign political violence.

A digital companion to "We Do Not Want the Gates Closed Between Us," telling the story of Native American resistance to forced resettlement on reservations.

Heavy industry once drove Pittsburgh’s economy. Now health care does—but without the same hard-won benefits.

Over 30 years, dramatic consolidation has meant higher prices, fewer treatment options and less incentive to innovate.

What has been gained and lost from overlooking histories about the wild heterogeneity of networks that existed for well over a century?

Robert Mundell’s theories spawned decades of economic debate and still matter to the big ideas of today.

Reflections on the various legends surrounding the world's most famous ship.

Why we pay.

April 15 may be Tax Day, but for some, it’s the 14th of April that’s notorious.

Abolition in Africa brought longed-for freedoms, but also political turmoil, economic collapse and rising enslavement.

It’s easier to blame individuals for the opioid crisis than to attempt to diagnose and cure the ills of a society.

A border policy divorced from history can’t do what policymakers want.

U.S. nuclear weapons testing displaced residents of the Marshall Islands. They're still fighting for justice for the devastation of their homeland and health.

How English and Esperanto offer competing visions of a universal language.

Dezmond Floyd, age 10, has an open discussion with his mother Tanai about what happens during his school’s active shooter drills.

The challenge of documenting a virtual world.

The pandemic, like other open wounds, must be remembered with an “open” memorial.

Long in retreat in the US, the welfare state found a haven in an unlikely place – the military, where it thrived for decades.

It is time to reckon with America’s racist legacy of Interstate Highway planning and engineering.

In a career of many flops, he laid claim to the outsized success of Marvel Comics.

What is a small, historically-minded community meant to do with something like Western State Hospital?

The blind erasure of native culture is nothing new.

The transformation of tobacco and cannabis into early modern global obsessions.

Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez discusses her new book on Isabel Cooper, a Filipina American actress and Douglas MacArthur’s lover.

In 1970, a hand-bound portfolio of nearly 300 drawings is found in a dumpster. It would take 41 years to identify the artist who drew them.

In the experimental world of modernist poetry, literary journals were vulnerable to fake submissions.

New York’s 300-year-old trash becomes treasure in the hands of an urban archaeologist.

Racism documented in files from the “Central Lunatic Asylum for the Colored Insane.”

Former followers of an evangelical “purity” movement that promoted a strict view of abstinence are grappling with aftershocks.

The discovery may explain the escape of Captain Henry Every after his murderous raid on an Indian emperor’s ship.

Most Americans are eager to forget 2020. But some are making time capsules to make sure future generations remember it.

Scapegoating immigrant groups in times of disease outbreak has a long history.

A Soviet blockade around Berlin cut the city off from the West. But in 1948 U.S. and British pilots began to fly food, fuel and medicine to the Allied sectors.

The 1800 election shows there is nothing new about conspiracy theories, and that they really take hold when we don’t trust each other.

A brief history of the Twenty-sixth Amendment.

The history of resistance to racial oppression includes armed, violent resistance.

Why unionism is so integral to achieving equality.

This plight dates back to the era of slavery.

Universities helped buttress a racist caste system well into the 20th century.

Despite the Interior Department’s name, the agency has played a key role in the construction of American foreign policy and territorial expansion.

Nearly two centuries later, many tribes remain suspicious of the drive to get them vaccinated against the coronavirus.

Whereas southern Klansmen assaulted Black Americans and their white allies, western vigilantes targeted those they deemed a greater threat: Chinese immigrants.

History shows that the benefits of such a system can extend far beyond the venues into which such a passport would grant admission .

The U.S. is a diverse nation of immigrants—but it was not intended to be, and its historical biases continue to haunt the present.

Imported from Europe, the custom of leaving gratuities began spreading in the U.S. post-Civil War. It was loathed as a master-serf custom.

An interactive digital history project chronicling how the U.S. Post was the underlying circuitry of western expansion.

Digital messaging was supposed to make our work lives easier and more efficient, but the math suggests that meetings might be better.

Educators say that anti-Asian racism is directly linked to how the AAPI community is often depicted in U.S. history lessons .

A new book by Ruth Ben-Ghiat discusses the past and present challenges posed by authoritarianism, but misses the conditions in which it arises.