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The Trump administration reportedly could be taking us down a dangerous path.

How an Illuminati conspiracy theory captured American imaginations in the nation’s earliest days.

The Harrisons’ eco-art told stories about the apocalypse, pointing to a future where we’d all have to be survival artists

The hugely influential but largely forgotten labor leader Ben Fletcher couldn’t be more relevant to the most urgent political projects of today.

A new history charts the global legacy of Fordist mass production, tracing its appeal to political formations on both the left and the right.

In the 1950s, residents of Mosinee, Wisconsin, staged a coup to warn of the red menace. The lessons of that historical footnote have never been more relevant.

Ed Ayers visits with public historians in Texas and explores what's wrong with remembering the Alamo as the beginning of Texas history.

In the small town of Ocoee, Fla., a racist mob went on a rampage after a Black man tried to cast his ballot on Nov. 2, 1920.

Why his reformist retelling of the Chicago Seven fails to tell the real story of the leftists on trial.

On Cold War men's adventure magazines and the antifeminist tradition in American popular culture.

The history of tuning in to televised election returns.

A visit with artists and public historians in Chicago who are working to keep the memory of the city's "Red Summer" alive.

The ways that authorities in Richmond, Virginia, responded to the 1918 Flu offer a lens onto what – and who – was most valued by those in power there.

Ed Ayers visits Manzanar, the largest of the WWII-era internment camps for Japanese Americans, and speaks to those keeping the memories of detainees alive.

President Trump has called on supporters, including law enforcement officers, to monitor election sites. Voter intimidation tactics have a long history.

Explaining Joe Biden’s fondness for quoting Irish poets.

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.