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An historian debunks the vice president’s op-ed.

Why criminalizing political opposition can be dangerous.

Evidence shows Native Americans in New England lived lightly on the land for thousands of years. Europeans were the first to majorly impact the environment.

What did the Roosevelt administration know, and when?

Despite its countercultural associations today, organic farming was entangled with fascist and quasi-fascist politics at its origins.

Sean Wilentz wrote a piece opposing the New York Times Magazine's 1619 Project, but his use of Revolutionary-era newspapers as sources is flawed.

A new book argues that many seemingly isolated rebellions are better understood as a single protracted struggle.

The most famous suffragists largely weren't anti-abortion and wanted women to have more control over their bodies.

Charles I was charged with high treason, waging war against his people and conspiring to deprive them of their rights and liberties.

A new book argues that US history has been a struggle between monopoly and democracy, but fails to address class and labor when decoding inequality.

A batch of quietly released documents confirms what many have long suspected.

A deep dive into an archive will never be the same.

Through Emma Williard's imagination, a collection of rare maps that illustrates past reality.

The pioneering work of Emma Willard, a leading feminist educator whose innovative maps of time laid the groundwork for the charts and graphics of today.

It happens every year.

Although the British settlers imported Africans from the first as slaves, the earliest Virginians had yet to establish many basic rules regarding slavery.

In 1873, there weren’t very many options for the public in the United States to see what a real whale looked like.

The Constitution originally provided for the selection of senators by state legislatures, but the 17th Amendment changed that, and with it, the Senate itself.

Officials altered a photo of the 2017 Women’s March to avoid “political controversy.”

Starting in the 1970s, groups like MOVE and Seeds of Wisdom have fought for the decolonization of urban space.

Many of King’s words about allies ring true today.

Applying King to our contemporary moment.

The New York Times’ 1619 Project launched with the best of intentions, but has been undermined by some of its claims.

Benjamin Franklin even wrote an ode to a fallen one.

Influence, invention, and the legacy of Leon Redbone.

A pianist performs a piece of music forgotten for 150 years.

Martin Luther King Jr. recognized that Imperial expansion over stolen Indian land shaped and deepened the American Revolution’s relationship to slavery.

Honoring Baker alongside Martin Luther King would highlight the long and patient work of building a social movement.

Textbooks can be revised, but historic sites, monuments, and collections that memorialize ugly pasts aren’t so easily changed.

A new book, "Franchise," explains how black franchise owners became the backbone of the industry.

As Eisenhower predicted, there is no balance left, as U.S. policy is reduced to who we threaten, bomb, or occupy next.

The return of the disease reflects historical amnesia, declining faith in institutions, and a lack of concern for the public good.

Two women programmers played a pivotal role in the birth of chaos theory. Their previously untold story illustrates the changing status of computation in science.

A documentary website that tells the story of how young activists united with local people in the Deep South to build a grassroots movement that transformed the nation.

It’s in vogue to call the new movement against police violence "leaderless." But as Ella Baker taught us, it's more correct to say that it has many leaders.

Revolution, the civil rights movement, and African-American identity.

A public historian recommends tactics for explaining an oft-left out period.

At Boston Latin School teachers are changing the way they prepare their students to think critically about immigration policy.

The mob saw an opportunity. Local 338 had other ideas.

What to the historian is 1619? What to Africans and their descendants is 1619?

A study of more than 100 cities shows neighborhoods subjected to discriminatory housing policies nearly a century ago are hotter today than other areas.

Activists today are taking up Dr. King’s mantle and reviving the Poor People’s Campaign.

King should be appreciated in his full complexity.

Recently unearthed surveillance documents show how the FBI tried to destroy the Poor People’s Movement.

Jazz, King declared, was the ability to take the “hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph.”

In Knoxville, Tennessee, folks love sandwiches from a Fresh-O-Matic steamer like they love their grandmas.

It took much longer — and went much further — than we think.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

This footnote in New York Public Library history hints at a rich story of power, taste, and the crumbling of traditional gatekeepers.

The poorly crafted disease metaphor often accompanies a bad outcome.