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Rural educator Frank Cyr had the vision and pull to force the nation to standardize the color of the ubiquitous vehicle.

In 2002, still reeling from the dot-com crash, Google realized they’d been harvesting a very valuable raw material — your behavior.

After the television cameras went away, a North Carolina city debated the future of its toppled Confederate statue.

The dark side of the medical industrial complex.

Boris Johnson is suspending Parliament for five weeks. That couldn't happen in the United States.

Considering the treatment of Confederate veterans in light of the treatment of undocumented immigrants in the South today.

On September 18, 1977, Youngstown, Ohio, received a blow that it has never recovered from.

And good for him. Nations have always competed for strategically placed land and resources.

Far from wallowing in nostalgia, Tarantino is using alternative history to critique conventional Hollywood endings.

Armed with footnotes, we can save democracy.

Charles Postel on the temperance crusade that galvanized the American women's movement.

The New York Times is right that slavery made a major contribution to capitalist development in the United States — just not in the way they imagine.

A review of Roger D. Launius's "Apollo’s Legacy" and Teasel E. Muir-Harmony's "Apollo to the Moon."

It’s surprisingly hard to protect beloved public art.

'It’s about time,' said former doubles partner Angela Buxton.

They stood against Tammany Hall, the centralized presidency, and profligate spending. Today's Right should give them another look.

The ‘reasonable’ right’s persecution rhetoric echoes the Confederacy’s defense of slavery.

The failed canal project that could have saved cities like Youngstown, Ohio.

What would the French Revolution have looked like on Twitter?

Organizers seeking to spark far-reaching work stoppages in the United States can invoke a powerful fact: It has happened before.

Groundbreaking discoveries... but at what cost?

Between 1910 and 1997, black farmers lost about 90% of the land they owned.

Beyond the "casualty numbers and bloodshed," a new history takes into account the "social and structural issues" of disability among soldiers and veterans.

The vice president is best known for killing rival Alexander Hamilton in an 1804 duel. But he was also a notorious rake, historians say.

The first Africans who came to America in 1619 were not ‘enslaved’, they were indentured – and this is a crucial difference.

The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms.

If you like hot chicken, perhaps you’d be interested in knowing where it comes from.

If you think dropping a nuclear bomb into the eye of a hurricane is a bad idea, wait'll you see what they had in mind for the polar ice caps.

W. E. B. Du Bois died on this day in 1963. Few figures were more influential in shaping the struggle against colonialism.

For generations, Southern white elites have been terrified of poor whites and black workers joining hands.

‘Cold Warriors’ traces how the U.S. and Soviet government used writers like George Orwell and Boris Pasternak to wage ideological battles during the Cold War.

Japanese American incarceration is the blueprint for today’s migrant detention camps.

As part of its “1619” inquiry into slavery's legacy, The New York Times revives 19th century revisionist history on the founding.

Conservative uproar over the 1619 Project is just the most recent clash in a battle over how we should understand America’s past.

A twist of fate brought the first Africans to Virginia in 1619. See how slavery grew in the U.S. over two centuries.

On the integrated Union regiments composed of white, black, and native men who fought in the Civil War's western theatre.

Between 1870 and 1960, Christianity declined dramatically across much of Europe. Not in America. One historian explains why.

When birth control was still taboo, early socialists fought to make it accessible to working-class women.

These maps drawn by Indigenous artists depict a union of visual traditions during the 16th century.

Created in New York by Jewish immigrants, the first comic book superheroes were mythic saviors who could combat the Nazi threat.

In the 50s and 60s, steamy novels about lesbian relationships, marketed to men, gave closeted women needed representation.

In 1619, wealthy investors overthrew the charter that guaranteed land for everyone.

Letters come in each year with pilfered stones from the national park, hoping to break the senders' curse.

Nixon created the blend of Republicanism that remains attractive to a segment of Hispanic voters.

Why was the Golden State once chock-full of memorials to the Southern rebels?

Marking the 400-year African American struggle to survive and to be free of racism.

The new rule dramatically expands the meaning of public charge.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

They slaughtered our ancestors and derailed our history. And they’re not finished with us yet.

A review of two books exploring the importance and legacy of the founding of the English colony at Jamestown.