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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.

The bizarre and complex history of Black America, a theatrical production which revealed the conflicting possibilities of self-expression in a racist society.

Greek statues, the Napoleonic wars, and the advent of photography all played a role.

On Juanita Harrison’s "My Great, Wide, Beautiful World."

Why the Potato Heads are the latest toys becoming more inclusive.

A closer look at non-Native Americans that appropriate, fabricate, and invent Native identities for themselves.

Leigh Eric Schmidt profiles the nineteenth century's notable "village atheists."

Nearly a century later, both ‘Head of Christ’ and criticism of its role in enshrining Jesus as white endure.

She ran from the car of a powerful congressman and dove into the Tidal Basin in 1974, generating a splash that would ripple into a political cause celebre.

The families arrived from Japan with fanfare, most disappeared without a trace.

The drive for American independence coalesced in only a few years of rapidly accelerating political change.

The founding father of American birding soared on the wings of white privilege. How should the birding community grapple with this racist legacy?

Opened in 1760, the school may be the oldest still-standing building of its kind.

From ancient Rome to modern Atlanta, the technologies that allow people to commute in about 30 minutes have defined the shape of cities.

Nearly 80 years ago, a construction standstill derailed the subway into its present crisis.

It's about the satirical tradition of 'going there.'