Excerpts

In six weeks, 12,000 were dead of influenza.

Moral thinking about debt has fluctuated throughout U.S. history. Today’s calls for cancellation suggest it may be poised for transformation once again.

Popeyes has long cultivated a black customer base — which has positive and negative ramifications.

In favor of wrestling with the most difficult aspects of our history.

The impact of Columbine on today's youths -- and how the media has shifted its coverage of school shootings.

Liesl Schillinger Considers the Impeachment of Donald Trump vs. the Indictment of George III.

The world's last climate crisis demonstrates that surviving is possible if bold economic and social change is embraced.

Declassified government documents show how both sides of the Iron Curtain worked to have the projects canned.

A close look at the consequences of nuclear testing.

The gravest danger to American democracy isn’t an excess of vitriol—it’s the false promise of civility.

I first met him 21 years ago, and now our relationship is the subject of a new movie. He’s never been more revered—or more misunderstood.

His political evolution points to a different locus of power than the one liberals tend to invoke when discussing the era’s history.

An excerpt from ‘We Return Fighting,’ a groundbreaking exploration of African American involvement in World War I.

Working-class radicalism once transcended nativist division — and can do so again.

"American journalism is younger than American baseball."

When Vice President Spiro Agnew gave a speech in 1969 bashing the press, he fired some of the first shots in a culture war that persists to this day.

In Coates's debut novel, he sets out to recover the struggles for emancipation that have been lost to the past.

America’s racialized topography means African-American historical sites are especially vulnerable to climate change.

In the 1850s, abolitionists, including black women, fought for freedom by force.

Forty years after the Greensboro Massacre, a survivor talks about that day, and why organized workers are such a threat to the powerful.

Forty years ago, a gang of Klansmen and Nazis murdered five communists in broad daylight. America has never been the same.

For much of our clerisy, the nation is an anachronism or disgrace.

Jill Lepore’s awkward embrace of the nation.

After 50 years of networked communications, commercial interests have eclipsed the public good.

When America’s first aerial cameraman met an infamous spirit photographer, the chemistry was explosive.

America has a history of dealing with witches - and it has culminated in a modern movement of politically active ones.

We use the term "witch hunt" to describe baseless accusations. It's actually about targeting those without power.

D&D attracted millions of players, along with accusations by some religious figures that the game fostered demon worship and a belief in witchcraft and magic.

The heroines of 1970s and 80s teen horror movies were traditionally feminine, tough, and sexually confident.

Did mass graves in the influenza pandemic help give rise to the living dead?

Deaf history and the birth of umpiring gestures in baseball.

On the witch craze of early modern Europe, and how the concurrent rise of the mass-produced woodcut helped forge the archetype of the broom-riding crone.

A battle over local control in a city that was the face of integration shows the extent of the new segregation problem in the U.S.

Giuliani’s old playbook of engaging in the politics of white grievance fits perfectly with his role as an unofficial aide to President Trump.

Many people think of the White House as a symbol of democracy, but it also embodies America’s complicated past.

The long history of politicians claiming to be victims of lynching and racial violence.

Christian fundamentalists have become a politically powerful group since the movement’s foundation in 1919.

Historians tell stories about the past. A new book argues that those stories are often dangerously wrong.

How video game designers are 'gaminiscing' World War II stories.

A term that once described a vital tradition within the Christian faith now means something else entirely.

Ninety years ago, young African Americans in the South took up the Lindy Hop. It was an act of resistance and an assertion of freedom.

The Depression was the gravitational pull that created country stars and their nationwide universe of listeners.

Can the social contract be protected from a measles outbreak?

How online fandoms are allowing people to find themselves in the narrative.

Expanding the radical promise of the American Revolution.

Becoming an agency that wouldn't dream of advertising on Breitbart will require deep changes.

Lizabeth Cohen on the poverty and prosperity of the American city.

In the mid-20th century, Playboy wasn't just an erotic magazine. It was an architectural movement as well.

Hundreds of ancient Native American sites along the Gulf Coast are at risk.

“The child is made to study far, far beyond his physical strength.”