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By blending education and activism, Zonia Baber made geography a means of uniting—not conquering—the globe.

Fannie Lou Hamer is among the sharecroppers interviewed in this unauthorized documentary about the plantation of Dixiecrat James Eastland.

The radical women behind the original “dump him” discourse.

The left regularly dismisses such women as less worthy of recognition.

The peculiarities of how American Christianity took shape help explain believers’ vulnerability to conspiratorial thinking and misinformation.

In the 1970s, social workers in several states placed queer teenagers with queer foster parents, in discrete acts of quiet radicalism.

In 1963, a Black politician named Ben Lewis was shot to death in Chicago. Decades later, it remains no accident authorities never solved the crime.

In becoming the party of Trump, the G.O.P. confronts the kind of existential crisis that has destroyed American parties in the past.

The role of Red Horse's drawings in the historical narrative of the Battle of Little Bighorn.

A new book shows us the capital region's earliest years through the eyes and the experiences of leaders like Harriet Tubman and Elizabeth Keckley.

Muir's romantic vision obscured Indigenous ownership of the land—but a new generation is pulling away the veil.

The US imperialist wars in the Philippines, Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan grew from US wars against Indigenous people in the 19th century.

Who needs a public health system when sickness is a personal failure?

What an old poem says about the search for justice following the Capitol riot.

Why it’s foolish to think the modern GOP will ever break with its lunatic fringe.

Emilio Sanchez and the British government fought the lucrative business as American authorities looked the other way.

Redlining itself cannot explain this persistence of inequality in America's cities.

Black civil-rights activists—and especially Black women—delivered on the promise of the Founding. Their victories are in peril.

An activist, writer, doctor and intellectual, James McCune Smith, born enslaved, directed his talents to the eradication of slavery.

From the beginning, International Women's Day has been an occasion to celebrate working women and fight capitalism.

The children’s author’s early works have been finding a new audience among those opposed to the "America First" policies of President Trump.

The modern GOP isn't the first party to embrace huge conspiracies. But the lessons should be sobering.

Long before Southern Democrats filibustered Civil Rights legislation, “filibusteros” were conquering slave territories for the United States.

While American conservatism remains largely White, it has slowly but surely become less so.

For as long as women have battled for equitable political representation in America, those battles have been defined by images.

Two new movies emphasize the singer’s spirit of defiance and political courage.

The Confederate monuments did fall. But not permanently.

It would be hard to blame him if he had lost faith in the republic.

Why midcentury Americans believed the suburbs were making them sick.

An eviction moratorium has slowed filings in cities like Richmond, but it hasn’t stopped them, and Black tenants are at highest risk.

As technologies of quantification and video capture grow more sophisticated, is baseball changing? Do those changes have moral implications?

The centuries-long battle over Sunday activities is really about African Americans' freedom and agency.

This is even trickier now that the language of critical thinking has been appropriated by the alt-right.

At places like the Gettysburg battlefield and Arlington National Cemetery, there's a new, escalating conflict over monuments that honor the Lost Cause.

The story of Jemima Wilkinson, otherwise known as the Public Universal Friend.

Embroidered orchards and peony hair ornaments testify that women were practitioners of floral display, but many women sought knowledge as well as style.

“Green” public relations work has flown below the radar but made a huge impact.

Thirty years after the police beating of Rodney King, it's clear that shock and anger don't translate into meaningful reform.

When it comes to education technology, school leaders have often leaped before they looked.

A political education begins with knockoff opinions amid the 1840 U.S. presidential election.

The maps embrace everyone —free and enslaved, from the first national census of the late 18th century to the sophisticated surveys of the early 21st century.

The Federal Writers’ Project narratives provide an all-too-rare link to our past.

In the 19th century, Purim became an occasion to hold parties to raise money for charities. These parties helped American Jews gain a standing among the elite.

Even after slave trade was banned, the United States and New York City, in particular, were complicit in allowing it to persist.

History shows that boosting the minimum wage leads to consumer spending.

The Yippies' takeover did not quite go to plan.

A steadfast Republican committed to union-management cooperation, peace through treaties, competitive capitalism, and empowerment of African-Americans.

Thaddeus Stevens understood far better than most that fully uprooting slavery meant overthrowing the South’s economic system and challenging property rights.

It’s difficult to describe anti-Asian racism when society lacks a coherent historical account of what it actually looks like.

When I think about the 1870 riot, I remember how the country rejected the opportunity it had.