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In the mid-1990s, Sarah McLachlan set out to prove a woman's place was center stage.

The origins of our efforts to keep foreign countries out of our elections.

To be Gen X was to be disaffected from the consumer norms of the 1980s, but to be pessimistic about any chance for social transformation.

Are whistleblowers heroes or traitors? It depends who you ask.

The making of the black working class.

No belief in the history of the US has been more threatening to democracy than the certainty that only white people are fit for self-government.

It’s doubtful even Alexander Hamilton believed what he was selling in “Federalist No. 68.”

For over 100 years, the bubbly beverage has gone in and out of vogue as a wellness tonic.

The historical context of the amendments passed in the wake of the Civil War, Eric Foner argues, are widely misunderstood.

The novelist drew on far-flung voyages to create his masterpiece. But he could finish it only at his beloved Berkshire farm.

Today, it’s a cutting-edge lab. In the 1950s and 1960s, it was the center of the U.S. government’s darkest experiments.

A review of two recent books about white paramilitarism in the wake of the Cold War.

Margret and Hans A. Rey, the reluctant parents of a cartoon ape-child, always yearned to leave children’s literature behind.

From the Framers on, Americans have understood our fundamental law to oppose ownership of persons.

A shocking story about the biggest company in the US's most profitable industry.

American revolutionaries had a far wider range of reasons for supporting rebellion than we often assume.

The policy of "prevention through deterrence" has been deadly.

When did people start using the phrase to refer to a group of two or more?

Charlottesville and the UVA were enthusiastic participants in the national resurgence of public and celebratory white supremacy.

“Not religious” has become a specific American identity—one that distinguishes secular, liberal whites from the conservative, evangelical right.

At a ceremony Wednesday, leaders remembered the Ponca chief whose court case established that Native Americans were people.

When modern conservatives associate activists of color with communism, they’re drawing on a racist history that goes back over 100 years.

The Lakota, like other groups, see themselves as a sovereign people. Can Indigenous sovereignty survive colonisation?

Kehinde Wiley unveils his new equestrian statue in Times Square. In December, it will be installed in Richmond, with those of Civil War generals nearby.

The political rumblings beneath his 1969 album, "Hot Buttered Soul."

Awaiting a Senate trial might curtail Trump's worst behaviors.

Emma Tenayuca and the San Antonio Pecan Shellers Strike of 1938.

Reflections on the centennial of America’s greatest sports scandal.

Well before Watergate broke, John Ashbrook waged a primary campaign that the Right took very seriously.

The GM strike recalls the Flint sit-down strikes of 1936-7: a profit-hungry corporation, a fed-up workforce, and workers' willingness to take militant action.

The complicated privilege of forming a new constituency.

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.