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An overlooked corner of the Constitution hints at a right to be protected from infection.

Should art heal the centuries of racial violence and injustice in the US?

On Oct. 21, 1980, a beloved tradition was put to a stop.

With democracy hanging in the balance in 2020, the Court is clearly playing a decisive and destructive role. Unfortunately, we’ve been here before.

The collapse of the Republican Party.

Pursuing a Native alliance powerful enough to resist the American invaders, the Shawnee leader and his prophet brother envisioned a new and better Indian world.

Democrats and Republicans are increasingly united in an anti-China front. But their approaches to U.S. foreign policy diverge.

A political history of the present moment.

How American policing grew out of efforts to control the labor of poor and enslaved people.

Douglas Brinkley offers a brief history of political listicles.

Research into the long-term consequences of a polio outbreak found that older students are at highest risk for harm.

In rural Oklahoma, an Osage photographer creates portraits of resilience.

How the pain scale fails us.

Why debunking mesmerism only made it stronger.

Rick Perlstein's "Reaganland" charts the conservative counter-revolution that moved the US to the right.

The controversy surrounding the 2000 presidential election led to sweeping voting reforms, but opened the door to a new set of problems still affecting us.

Hidden disenfranchisement is as much of a problem as long lines at the polls.

Throughout his career, Hamilton acted as a middleman for his family and friends to purchase enslaved people.

It's remembered as one of the best industrial jobs a worker could get in postwar America. Less remembered is how brutal life on the factory floor was – and still is.

A new history of Ed Logue and his vision of urban renewal documents the broken promises of midcentury liberalism.

What's behind the name of the state? And who was our first president, really?

Thirty years after "Ice Ice Baby," Robert Van Winkle is ready to talk about it all—his rise, his fall, and that infamous night on the balcony.

St. Paul and Minneapolis have a history as long, deep, and twisted as the Mississippi River.

The only coup in American history came after scare-mongering that wouldn't sound out of place in 2020.

An interactive feature that displays the new words that were used in print each year, going back centuries.

A madman versus a crook? Unexpected twists? Fake news? Welcome to the election of 1800.

The politically complacent ’90s produced a surprisingly large number of mainstream American rom-coms about fighting the Man.

Born out of the Cold War, the course has a great contradiction at its heart: why do we teach history?

A new book explains how U.S. political elites sold the UN to the public as a route to global peace, while all along wanting it as a cover for militarization.

The hope for historical vindication is loud now but not new.

Reflections on the famous economist through the prism of the author's own mixed-race family.

David Brion Davis’s philosophical history.

In the 1970s, a new wave of post-Watergate liberals stopped fighting monopoly power. The result is an increasingly dangerous political system.

Native traditions and novel discoveries tell the migration story of the ancestors of the Navajo and Apache.

How masks became gendered during the 1918–1919 Flu Pandemic.

The messy election of 1876.

A review of "Descent" – a family story that blends the real world and the imagination.

Reading the literature of past plagues and suddenly seeing our present reflected in a mirror.

Till was murdered 65 years ago. Sites of commemoration across the Mississippi Delta still struggle with what’s history and what’s hearsay.

When overwhelmed unemployment insurance systems malfunctioned, governments blamed the 60-year-old programming language COBOL. But what really failed?

Outright racism met financial opportunity when men like Isiah Rynders accrued wealth through legal, but nefarious, means.

Postwar prosperity depended on a truce between capitalist growth and democratic fairness. Is it possible to get it back?

History suggests that what you see on the campaign trail, or even in a candidate’s past record, is not always what you get from a president once in power.

History shows that the text is far more complex than the legal doctrine might indicate.

African American women played a significant and sometimes overlooked role in the struggle to gain the vote.

Beyond packing schemes, we need to diminish the high court’s power.

Search a 4,000-word database to see how language in the magazine evolved over time.

YouTubers are using AI to bring history to life. But historians argue the process is nonsense.

A political usage guide for a feckless commentariat.

The “Middle Class Nation” and “American Exceptionalism” found each other late, and under specific circumstances.