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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.

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.