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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.

With ‘Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood,’ Tarantino slakes his thirst for nostalgia while playing with another piece of history.

Creating the city's bucolic, natural landscapes required a good deal of displacement, technological intervention, and erasure.

Yesterday’s “good" immigrant can turn into tomorrow’s radical.

Other than being alive during the 1960s, the baby boomers had almost nothing to do with the era's social and political upheaval.

When the going gets tough, the tough start something better.

The great showman taught us to love hyperbole, fake news, and a good hoax. A century and a half later, the show has escaped the tent.

People have passionate feelings about the oddball punctuation. Here are some things you probably didn't know about it.

Barnum called himself the “Prince of Humbugs,” which left open the possibility that one day there would arise a king.

Maybelle Carter witnessed the dawn of the recording era and helped create country music as one of the genre's biggest acts.

Conditional inclusion for "model minorities" perpetuates enduring forms of racial exclusion.

How a group of 19th-century Quakers cut their economic ties to slavery.

We might say that these books are recording a life with music, and that they are worth listening to.

The historic pigments in the Forbes Collection include the esoteric, the expensive, and the toxic.

U.S. presidential elections didn't drag on so long before the late sixties.

My family is a success story. We’re also evidence of the long odds African Americans face on the path to success.

For Herman Melville, the color white could be horrifyingly bleak.

Ralph H. Cameron staked mining claims around the Grand Canyon, seeking to privatize it. To protect his claims, he ran for Senate.

If they return governance to its 19th century roots, they will also do away with courts' ability to review agency action.