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As Trump calls for legions to, as he proclaimed, 'go into the polls,' we should recall the sordid episode of voter intimidation that happened in Orange County.

Golf clubs named after Confederate generals are attracting new scrutiny.

A hundred years ago, the U.S. was riven by disease, inflamed with racial violence, and torn between isolation and globalism. Sound familiar?

Grover Cleveland believed that if anything happened to his mustache during his surgery at sea, the public would know something was wrong.

They are beholden only to their patient, not to the American people.

The president contracted influenza while attending peace talks in Paris, but the nation was never told the full, true story.

In 1790, George Washington fell severely ill, threatening his life and the young nation he led.

Secular modernity requires the weeding out of all the baloney. Yet it’s not clear that we are any less credulous than before.

A former Navy lawyer speaks about his decision to leak classified information on detainees at the infamous prison of Guantanamo.

The children who desegregated America.

The filmmaker and photographer’s work shows late-sixties Black activism to be a joyful, community-building project.

As demands for racial justice grow, Trump is pushing historical mythmaking into high gear.

Lessons from 1800.

Women's clubs were popular after the Civil War among white and Black women. But white clubwomen used their influence to ingrain racist curriculum in schools.

On the need to rethink the U.S. immigration and refugee policy, which was shaped as part of Cold War strategy.

Eric Foner sees parallels with our own time but warns that yesterday’s solution would be a disaster.

The centennial of women’s suffrage which guaranteed all women the right to vote — has a lie at its very core.

White evangelical Christians are among President Trump’s most important supporters. But more than 40 years ago, they were on the margins of American politics.

The little-known story of the laborers who became pawns in a Floridian struggle during the American Revolution.

If your childhood vision of police is all pet rescues and tinfoil badges, Friendly’s “copaganda” did its job.

USS Doris Miller will honor a Black Pearl Harbor hero and key figure in the rise of the Civil Rights Movement.

His conception of what appeals to suburban voters is frozen in the past.

How the ancient, antisemitic nocturnal ritual fantasy expresses itself through the ages—and explains the right’s fascination with fringe conspiracy theories.

Some age groups are more likely to recognize certain songs than others.

For more than seven decades, the North Carolina memorial has courted controversy in unexpected forms.

The system that is nobody’s first choice.

Many of America’s most notorious feuds have their roots in the Civil War.

After Baldwin’s biographer died, her niece opened an old desk drawer and discovered a trove of interview material, some of it unpublished.

A new book documents the history of three specific mechanisms of expulsion: formal deportation, voluntary departure, and "self-deportation."

Revisionist biographers have given us countless perspectives, from Honest Abe to Killer Lincoln. Is there a version that’s true to his time and attuned to ours?

Reflecting on "Capitalism and Slavery" (1944), a work that continues to influence scholarship today.

Why President Trump’s refusal to commit to accepting the election results is so dangerous.

The modern-day human-resources practice is rooted in avant-garde philosophy.

In our current politics we must be attentive to how talk of American freedom has long been connected to the presumed right of whites to dominate everyone else.

The founding generation revised the country’s history to make the new nation work.

The idea that justices exist outside of politics is a relatively new concept.

High-stakes debates put candidates in the hot seat. But are they helpful to voters?

Exploring the economic mobility of 11,172 middle class families over a 50-year period.

Jon Sternfeld on collective memory and history as instruction.

A U.S. intelligence officer reflects on the moral corruption of an open-ended occupation.

Delivering the mail used to be sexy and thrilling. It can be once more.

Marginalized women of color have long seen their reproductive freedom limited.

Who should be allowed to profit from depictions of traumatic events in Black history?

Nikole Hannah-Jones gives the credit for ending quotas to civil rights reformers. The truth is a bit more complicated.

U.S. democracy and the U.S. postal service share a long, entangled history. An attack against one signals an attack against the other.

A contested presidential election in 1876 produced a devastating compromise.

A lawsuit against Harvard University demands the return of an ancestor’s stolen image.

On September 21, 1976, he was assassinated by a car bomb in the heart of Washington, DC.

A majority of the estimated 675,000 American deaths from the influenza pandemic of 1918–19 occurred during the second wave.

Centuries before Columbus, Vikings came to the Western hemisphere. How far into the Americas did they travel?