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Only 15 nightlife spaces dedicated to queer and gay women remain in the United States

Lessons about organizing from the SNCC co-founder.

A return to the fairness doctrine wouldn't curb the damage caused by the far-right media ecosystem fueling much of America's conspiracy-driven politics.

We must be cautious of the inclination to find a “usable history” that proves those points we want to prove, that reinforces the lessons we want reinforced.

It's a sign of disrespect.

Thousands of pages of declassified records are available for anyone to peruse.

How a Gilded Age best seller shaped American race discourse.

How not to learn about the American past.

States have a legitimate way to influence national politics. Forcing their will on other states isn't it.

On the ten year anniversary of Aziz Rana's book, Henry Brooks interviews him on his influential book and what it might teach us about the legacies of populism.

Far from a partisan for free markets, the Founding Father insisted on the need for economic planning. We need more of that vision today.

An oral history with 25 fashion luminaries, highlighting a previously untold history of the AIDS crisis.

Research shows that visitors often ignore information that conflicts with what they already believe about history.

Today we are telling the story of a powerful local business that has done wrong.

The penny press of the nineteenth century was a revolution in newspapers—and is a salutary reminder of lost ties between reporters and readers.

The 1898 Wilmington insurrection showed “how people could get murdered in the streets and no one held accountable for it.”

Pioneering cartoonists were experimental, satiric, erotic, and artistically ambitious.

How difficult was it to obtain artificial light before the 19th century? Well...

For decades, the Republican Party has used what's known as "the Southern Strategy" to win white support in the region.

A new biography of the pioneering doctors shows why “first” can be a tricky designation.

We must remember the very real challenges to the preservation of our democracy.

From covid-19 to the 2020 election, the specter of America’s racist history influences many aspects of our lives.

There’s no reason we can’t have universal childcare that’s wildly popular and provides high-quality care — in fact, during World War II, we did.

As large spaces where different sectors of the city converge, stadiums are sites of social and political struggle.

“There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law,” declared the man who would be America’s sixteenth president.

Disunion is hardly a new theme in American politics. In this moment of tumult, it would be unwise to rule out its return.

This op-ed celebrates the life and legacy of economist, attorney, and civil rights advocate Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander.

By the end of his life, inspired by the radicalism of the Black Panthers, Baldwin was again ready to proclaim himself a socialist.

After the Capitol was cleared of insurrectionists on January 6, it wasn't lost on many that cleaning up the mess would fall largely to Black and Brown people.

Then as now, not many people were willing to raise their own voices to defend the speech of a vulgarian spewing hate over a mass medium.

The aesthetics of virtual reality, and its promise of “magical” embodied experience, can be found in older experiments with immersive media.

The storming of the Capitol was an expression of the antidemocratic strands in American history.

Faulkner’s chroniclers have to reconcile the novelist’s often repellent political positions with the extraordinary meditations on race, violence, and cruelty in his fiction.

Thorstein Veblen’s maverick economic ideas made him the foremost iconoclast of the Age of Iconoclasts.

The answer can change over time.

Unlike our car dashboards, covid-19 dashboards do not give individuals actionable information.

When the D.C. Metropolitan Police failed to catch a murder suspect, white residents criticized and mocked. Black residents worried.

Over the 20th century, capitalism preserved its momentum by molding the ordinary person into a consumer with an unquenchable thirst for more stuff.

The devastating cruelties these stories reveal also contain a fundamental truth about prison.

A new book frames this country’s tendency toward state-sanctioned murder as a unique cultural inheritance.

How a personal connection to Nick Carraway inspired the author to write the novel "Nick."

From "insurrection" to "rebellion" to "Civil War," finding a name for the conflict was always political.

A new proposal for reparations for slavery raises three critical questions: How much does America owe? Where will the money come from? And who gets paid?

Decades of discrimination in Fresno laid the groundwork for a housing crisis today.

By neglecting the history of the Black diaspora, Isabel Wilkerson's "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents" fails to reckon with systems of racial capitalism.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

When poetry met power in January, 1961.

Oil companies like to point to the demise of the whaling industry as an example of market-based energy solutions. The reality is much more complicated.

Down and dirty in eighteenth-century London and Boston.

The 1960s and 70s were a time of activism in the U.S., and therefore a fertile time for campus newspapers and the alternative press.