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The U.S. needs a historical reckoning with the true cause of the border crisis: the long, brutal history of border enforcement itself.

How the Klan’s extensive networks of patriarchal power enabled abusive men to prey on women.

How can we be sure the atrocities of the past will stay in the past?

Exploring John Cleves Symmes Jr.’s obsession with a hollow Earth.

In the 1980s, vice-president George H.W. Bush was secretly the most important decision-maker in America's intelligence world.

The black pioneers who tried to start over out west.

Trump inherits a branch of government already well equipped to undermine democracy.

Social conservatives won some and lost some since Pat laid down the marker.

We have the Swedes and William Henry Harrison to thank for the popularization of the log cabin.

From the 80s onwards, the borderlands were rife with paramilitary cruelty and racism. But the president’s rhetoric has thrown fuel on the fire.

In the minds of some Southern Protestants, slavery had been divinely sanctioned.

In 1917, the U.S. Navy built a full-size battleship in the heart of New York City.

It has long been an important element of U.S. international affairs.

It’s time to reckon with the true history of the mythologized Texas landmark—and the racism and imperialism it represents.

While sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention has recently come to light, it's not new.

For decades, Democrats have positioned themselves as fiscally responsible while Republicans happily hand tax cuts to the rich.

Whether it ran smoothly or ground to a halt, the mail offered daily reminders that the hand of war touched every aspect of life.

To convert was not just a matter of belief, but also a claim to power.

It’s not the 1990s anymore. People want the government to help solve big problems. Here’s how the Democrats must respond.

If we are going to fund a Green New Deal, we need to acknowledge how the original actually worked.

Since the 1980s, activists in Philadelphia have argued that the city has always been a refuge for asylum seekers.

Cyclist Tillie Anderson shattered records, dominated her competition, and earned the world champion title.

It’s the 200th anniversary of Frederick Douglass’s birth, and some on the right have been crashing the party.

People without the means to visit America's wonders could finally picture it for themselves.

Wilma Rudolph won three Olympic golds and was among the first athletes to use her celebrity to fight for civil rights.

A name, now famously associated with a mass school shooting, belonged to a strong advocate for the Everglades.

Bones uncovered at the Manassas National Battlefield Park provide insights into surgery during the Civil War.

A few of Encyclopædia Britannica’s famous readers, on the occasion of its 250th anniversary.

Wild accusations, alternative facts, special prosecutors—the Salem witch trials of 1692 had it all.

Women in the workplace, from 19th century domestic workers to the Rosies of World War II to the labs of Silicon Valley.

Frances Hodgson Burnett's biographer considers her life and how personal tragedy underpinned the creation of her most famous work.

The author of a new biography explains how Murray changed the way that discrimination is understood today.

In 1830, Boston had just concluded a radical experiment — a high school for girls.

The cultural, political, and technological roots of a fraught piece of cotton.

Who in the reproductive rights debate can claim Susan B. Anthony?

White southern men who didn't own slaves often escaped to the swamps to avoid conscription and wait out the Civil War.

Private-labeled teas helped fund success during the suffragist movement. Today’s activists might learn from their model.

The origins of the Hallmark holiday are rooted in a much greater cause.

She is remembered for being a "first," but it was her integrity, courageousness, and conviction that made her an icon.

Understanding the politics behind Cooper Union's 'We Dissent' exhibition.

What gets lost when it’s only the rebel girls who get lionized?

How the Toledo Troopers, the most dominant female football team of all time, met their match.

As history shows, efficiency without ethics can be catastrophic.

A database of fugitives from American Slavery.

The co-winners of the 2018 Frederick Douglass Book Prize on researching slavery.

A new history of the early republic explores the origins of originalism.

A story of a philosopher, his sister, and belief.

Looking back at the year of the moon landing, Woodstock, and more.

I told her we were brought over the Rio Grande on a raft. I never called it a smuggling.

A century after the tragedies that shaped the nation's race relations.