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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.”

Confederate Statues aren't the only reminder of the Civil War - the US Army still has major bases named for Confederate soldiers.

A review of Lewis Hyde’s “A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past.”

Who gets to decide what the Constitution really means?

Apollo 11, the JPEG, the first pop-up ad, and 33 other bits of software that have transformed our world.

The North Carolina Klan thought burning crosses would scare the Lumbee tribe out of Robeson County. That’s not how things went down.

Soldiers who had fought in Vietnam weren’t pitted against an anti-war movement — in fact, many were actually part of it.

She faced sexism, split with a husband and found her voice teaching law in Houston.

H.W. Brands' new one-volume history of the American West reads too much like a movie we’ve already seen.

Are New Deal-era redlining maps still the best available tools for understanding the racial wealth gap?

It’s time to move past the tech sector’s creator myths.

The question of how to fix the tech industry is now inseparable from the question of how to fix late 20th century capitalism.

Indian boarding schools held Native American youth hostage in exchange for land cessions.

Five years since its inception, a look at what the Black Lives Matter movement accomplished and the important work it left unfinished.

Frank Olson died in 1953, but it took decades for his family to get closer to the truth.

Hundreds of Marines lost their lives in Helmand. Former Marine Christopher Jones returns to see what those losses achieved.

The U.S. had its own anti-car movement, led largely by women, before the Dutch "Stop de kindermoord" movement of the 1970s.

Fox News shields President Trump, but his love for their conspiracies might bring him down.

The investigation brought indictments and convictions — but Reagan weathered the storm.

The 1994 studio film was written by a 20-something who mined her own life to tell the story of a generation that disdained 'selling out.'