Excerpts

How "Choose Your Own Adventure" books indoctrinated ‘80s children with the idea that success is simply the result of individual “good choices.”

Winning the South Carolina primary requires exciting a crucial constituency.

How the United States created the largest immigrant detention system in the world.

Reviving race science plays into centuries of oppression.

The first Americans weren't one group of people; they arrived at different times, and likely by different methods.

American Indians, the Civil War, and Confederate memory.

How America's corporations lost their public purpose.

Plantations are not "charming" or "tranquil" wedding venues. They were gruesome labor camps profiting off of enslaved labor.

Like it or not, the “Miracle on Ice” team has long allowed itself to be used by the worst actors in our politics.

It took a while for pundits and other observers to truly understand the power of the new platform.

For 400 years, Americans have argued that their violence is justified while the violence of others constitutes barbarism.

Films of the battle for Iwo Jima, digitized 75 years after they were made, offer lessons for Americans today.

The case for electing "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and Pete Rose to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

At a peaceful protest of Confederate imagery in the school in 1970, dozens of students were arrested, suspended, and the remainder expelled.

A now-famous Puritan sermon was nothing special in its own day.

Never-before-transcribed articles from Frederick Douglass’ Paper denounce capitalism and economic inequality.

A look back on the album that kick-started a worldwide movement, half a century since Ozzy Osbourne first bellowed, “What is this that stands before me?”

The problem of minority rule isn’t Trumpian or temporary; it’s bipartisan and enduring.

This information is crucial for getting the election right.

No, the Civil War didn’t end slavery, and the first Africans didn’t arrive in America in 1619.

Women are slightly better at hand-washing than men. Here’s one theory for why.

Don't let anyone tell you revolutionary history is boring.

The similarities between 2020 and 1972 are too astonishing to ignore. But there’s one big difference.

Redlining in Omaha began in the 1920s. Although outlawed in the 1960s, its effects are still present in the city's demographics.

Tracing its emergence of as a distinct cultural institution.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

Its title, 'The Negro', seemed innocuous enough. But Malcolm X intended it to invoke a much harsher meaning.

Even Donald Trump’s most draconian and violent immigration policies are still circumscribed by the interests of capital.

The school has decided how much money we’re owed in reparations.

Mr. Peanut embodies two seemingly-distinct but deeply-connected Virginian worlds; he is a product of the state’s agricultural and aristocratic traditions.

The United States didn't begin in 1619.

In 1906, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed Chicago to move forward with a spectacularly disgusting feat of modern engineering.

Samuel Freedman rereads 1975's "Blue-Collar Aristocrats."

Satellite images dating back to 1975 allow researchers to map how millions of cul-de-sacs and dead-ends have proliferated in street networks worldwide.

Ashley Boone Jr., the first black president of a major Hollywood studio, helped make Star Wars a hit, yet chances are you've never heard of him.

The results of the 1920 census kicked off a bitter, decadelong political squabble. Could the same happen again in 2020?

Six historians weigh in on the biggest misconceptions about black history, including the Tuskegee experiment and enslaved people’s finances.

The Editor of the American Historical Review weighs in on recent historiographical debates around the New York Times' 1619 Project.

Lincoln protected thousands of acres of California forest and wanted to restore the nation’s battle-ravaged countryside before he was assassinated.

How barbed wire sparked a cowboy war and changed the American West.

Another news cycle, another media mogul stirring up electoral buzz.

Clare Beams on women's bodies and the power of names.

The Astor Place Opera House Riot of 1849 combined two of 19th-century America’s favorite pastimes: going to the theater and rioting.

On September 1st, 1858, a mob stormed the New York Marine Hospital in Staten Island, and set fire to the building.

A new book asks why the left fell out of love with Zionism, but what it reveals is why liberal Zionists fell out of love with the left.

In 1959 there was a public debate on violence vs nonviolence in the pages of The Liberator magazine between Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Williams.

Nearly 60 years after FDR authorized the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, California plans to apologize for its role.

A newly minted celebrity to the world, the future president used his position to procure his preferred beast of burden from the king of Spain.

A look at the impeachment of Warren Hastings and the nature of American power.

Mikaella Clements on the role of baths in twentieth-century literature.