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Sixty years after the decision, it’s worth remembering it took Congress's Civil Rights Act to finally smash Jim Crow.

The enduring impact of President Johnson’s Crime Commission.

The Kerner report neglected that police were not simply careless with black lives; they deliberately sought to punish black lives.

The Communist Party fought for racial equality in the South, specifically Alabama, where segregation was most oppressive.

Ten years after 'Brown v. Board of Education', Martin Luther King Jr. condemned how little had changed in the nation's classrooms.

Hobsbawm saw his political hopes crumble. He used that defeat to tell the story of our age.

Introducing a new digital history project focused on the ways Americans voted from 1788 to 1825.

How congressional conservatives undermined the civil rights movement through the Tax Reform Act of 1969.

The Lee and Jackson statues were erected not to mourn their deaths, but to glorify their character.

Excavations at a ranch in the southern High Plains show how generations of people adapted to an iconic Western landscape.

A photographer travels to the heart of Appalachia to spend time with the area's last surviving black former coal miners.

His racism and intolerance have always been in evidence; only slowly did he begin to understand how to use them to his advantage.

In ignoring the messy realities of westward expansion, McCullough’s "The Pioneers" is both incomplete and dull.

DC v. Heller recognized an individual right to possess a firearm under the Constitution. Here’s why the case was wrongly decided.

On Ancestry's dangerous move to make it harder to discern which white families owned slaves.

Anna Jarvis spent years fighting the holiday’s commercialization, but that may have hastened its descent into Hallmark territory.

How the Vermont senator went from a third-party independent to a 2020 frontrunner.

What a forgotten trove of videotapes reveals about the man who rewrote America’s political script.

Johnson’s impeachment was driven by his refusal to rid the country of the lingering effects of slavery.

Exploitation and predatory pricing drove the transformation of the beef industry – and created the model for modern agribusiness.

Before the Roe decision, at least 68 South Carolina clergymen actively counseled women on where they should receive abortions.

In the wake of devastating floods, one writer reflects on the importance of place to Great Plains Indians.

Before the 1990s, evangelical Christians were busier resettling newly arrived refugees than trying to keep them out.

You can hone in on a specific location and visualize how it has evolved between the Cryogenian Period and the present.

The West's history is full of stories of white Americans taking the law into their own hands to beat back nonwhite populations.

In Brazil, some descendants of defeated Confederate immigrants still believe the war for secession was a noble cause.

The extraordinary woman known as the ‘Angel of the Battlefield’ eventually founded the Red Cross.

Why did I never recognize all the important and valuable stories my mother told me as "history"?

Michael Kimmage considers "The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History" by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen.

Looking at a scientist’s FBI file.

Walter Jones and the unintended consequences of the War Crimes Act of 1996.

Outlining America's complex relationship and shared history with Puerto Rico and questions about sovereignty.

America’s obsession with beef was born of conquest and exploitation.

How did enslaved mothers contend with the possibility that their children could be sold away from them?

The reparations struggle is about remembering that America was built on slavery, but also about fighting for all working people.

Every four years, political parties document their positions in written platforms. How often do women's issues appear in the text?

Megachurches represent an enduring model of ecclesial organization in Protestantism.

The critical role that banking played in the political struggles of early American history.

On the eve of the Civil War, a nightmare at sea turned into one of the greatest rescues in maritime history.

Policies of de jure racial segregation and a history of state-sponsored violence continue to have an impact on African Americans.

The rise and fall of the Post Office from Tocqueville to Fred Rogers.

The Great Emancipator has a lesson for today's Democrats about how to play constitutional hardball.

Long before Reserve, Louisiana was home to a chemical plant and riddled with cancer, it suffered the deprivations of enslavement.

A review of three recent books that delve into the history and science of vaccines and immunity, and the anxieties that accompany them.

Behind the scenes, corporate lobbying laid the groundwork for the Justice Department’s aggressive pursuit of so-called eco-terrorists.

In the 19th century – when horse racing was America’s most popular sport – former slaves populated the ranks of jockeys and trainers.

Across Virginia, the landscape of slavery is fading as some work to preserve what is left.

From iceboxes to stainless steel behemoths: An Object Lesson.

Dale Carnegie treated the employee-employer relationship as a sacred, symbiotic bond.

Her death is a useful reminder that students have often served on the political front lines.