Excerpts

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.

It’s a hashtag, a talking point, a Trump rally riff. The inside story of a New York Times project that launched a year-long culture war.

Here’s how we came to label the coded language.

From its name, to its hazy origins, to its drug interactions, there's a lot going on beneath that thick rind.

“Ride of the Valkyries” has been featured in hundreds of films, including 'The Birth of a Nation,' 'Jarhead,' and most famously, Apocalypse Now.'

An excerpt from a new book that explores the threat of made-up monsters in the age of imperial conquest.

In the nearly sixty years since the Cuban missile crisis, the story of near-catastrophe has only grown more complicated.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

Tracing the long strange trip of the American Southwest, from military camels to retirees in RVs.

A dispatch from a tour of a Cold War-era nuclear test site in the Mojave Desert.

Political contests over the ideological slant of the Court are nothing new.

Court packing obscures more than it reveals about the current debate over the size of the Supreme Court.

A brief history of a political dog whistle.

In name, 'girl watching' is long gone. In practice, the trend lives on.

A new biography of Joseph McCarthy does not reckon with the devastating effects of anti-communism.

Interactive maps showing the historical geography of influential American social movements since the late 19th century.

On Populist programs and democratic central banking.

A history of inflammatory illness epithets.

How systemic racism shaped George Floyd’s life and hobbled his ambition.

It helped erode discrimination but also upheld racial prejudice.

Exploring Virginia’s Fort Monroe – the place where slavery began in British North America, and where, during the Civil War, it began to unravel.

A lesson on contextualizing history.

An interactive map of overland trails that settlers followed on their western journeys.

An interactive map of U.S. canals in the first half of the 19th century.

Our fights over nominees might be bitter, but they’re still less contentious than the 19th century.

Though the first Indigenous Peoples’ Day was celebrated in the early 1990s, the idea took shape many years earlier.

A review of "How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America."

There has been some famous presidential campaign moments in the past 50 years. However, not everyone knows or remembers these moments.

That’s the lesson of Dwight Eisenhower’s serious heart attack.

Osteopathy was founded by a 19th-century healer who believed the body was a self-healing machine.

This 1952 textbook serves as an example of the "patriotic history" that Donald Trump grew up with and calls for today.

Are White House doctors keeping the public adequately informed about President Trump’s battle with COVID-19?

Born 14 years after the nation's founding, the tenth commander-in-chief still has one living grandson.

The administration’s historically low ceiling for refugee resettlement may signal the end of an era.

A new book charts the long contest between elites and the forces of democracy seeking to dismantle their power.