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The latest struggle to define America's founding charter will define the country for generations to come.

Martin Scorsese's new film is premised on a confession that is not credible.

In America’s bloody history of racial violence, the little-known Elaine Massacre may rank as the deadliest.

Emory professor Michael Bellesiles resigned in the midst of a political firestorm. He still stands by his work.

In 1790, as the First Amendment was being ratified, George Washington made a promise to American Jews.

A new book explores the tangled politics behind a global addiction.

How Charles Schulz's classic strip shaped the comic medium.

The structure will span 300 feet and is expected to be unveiled on the Fairfax City campus in 2021.

A new book discusses the black nationalism at the heart of Thomas’s conservative jurisprudence.

Since the founding, Congress has supported democracy and public integrity by protecting those who spoke up about abuses of power.

In defining the scope of impeachment, they had in mind the alleged crimes of Warren Hastings.

Long before President Donald Trump, there was President John Tyler.

The Nixon impeachment proceedings and their parallels with the Trump-Ukraine scandal.

How one of America's original Bernie Bros became an outspoken critic of the left.

What a photograph reveals about the lives of young black women at the turn of the century.

Supporters of traditional narratives are fighting to keep their grip on the public imagination.

For decades, conspiracy theorists have clung to the fiction that thousands of soldiers are being held captive in Asia.

How three late 19th century equality movements failed to promote equality.

DC statehood would be a modest ploy compared with the mass admission of underpopulated western territories.

An upcoming Supreme Court case will test the "not guilty by reason of insanity" plea.

Why some journalists amassed reams of data and published thousands of pages to promote their home cities.

A just-discovered eyewitness account provides startling new evidence about who fired the shot that sparked the French and Indian War.

Against the backdrop of the Revolution, American Indians recognized a looming threat to their very existence.

Officials in a number of towns and cities are putting up signs to explain the monuments' racist history.

It was a setup: a stratagem worthy of wily Ulysses himself.

The world’s largest monument is decades in the making and more than a little controversial.

The pitfalls and the potential of cryptocurrency are explored in three recent publications.

It was a struggle to even get the president to go to a game.

Monuments ask us to look at the past, but how they do it exposes crucial aspects of the present.

Michael W. Twitty on the changing tides of plantation interpretation.

America was built by the labor of stolen African bodies, on stolen Native American lands.

A Jewish American reflects on a life spent amidst the ghosts of the American South and the former capital of the Reich.

What happened to America’s labor movement?

When Congress gave the Secretary of Labor discretion over any immigrant “likely to become a public charge,” they weren’t expecting someone like Frances Perkins.

Looking to Louisa May Alcott's heroine for inspiration.

It made it impossible to limit the size and scope of the federal government. Conservatives need to recognize that.

Eighty years ago, MGM’s sparkly pink rendering of Glinda expanded American pop culture’s definition of free-flying women.

A review of two new books on the postwar origins of “the Environment.”

A new book makes the case.

An historian discovers the portraits of two women all bound up in the pages of a 19th-century book.

On Daniel Okrent's "The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America."

Yuppies attract cafes and amenities to gentrifying neighborhoods. They also spark rising rents — and even violence.

The "new history of capitalism" cuts class politics at the expense of history.

A profile of UVA graduate R.T.W. Duke Jr., who presided over the 1924 dedication of the Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville.

Charles Schulz used his culturally monolithic comic strip to advocate for public health. But his approach had some serious shortcomings.

What the chaos aboard Flight 93 on 9/11 looked like to the White House and the fighter pilots prepared to ram the plane's cockpit.

This fall 500 Louisianans, in 19th-century attire, will re-create America’s largest plantation uprising.

The murals have been denounced as demeaning, and defended as an exposé of America’s racist past. Both sides miss the point.

Why the Jim Crow-era debate between the African-American leader and a ridiculous, Nazi-loving racist isn’t as famous as Lincoln-Douglas.

There's room for the haute and folk traditions but the market-driven style taking over is the most problematic.