Excerpts

There’s a bad synergy at work between the short-termism of the news cycle and the longue durée-ism of the academy.

A review of Robert Dallek's book, "Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life."

How would Bayard Rustin be judged today?

Why the nation's ninth vice-president – and his black wife – were purposely forgotten.

The question isn’t whether they have anything of value to offer. It’s whether they can avoid partisan vituperation along the way.

A dark chapter in the history of religious persecution.

How a team of lawyers exposed lies about police violence.

Throughout the history of civilization, board games have been used as propaganda to support ideologies and lifestyles.

Our ethics and desires can shape digital networks at least as forcefully as those networks influence us.

Without them, the economy of the American South would never would have recovered after the Civil War.

Not a white equivalent of Black History Month, but a better understanding of the concept of whiteness and the harm it inflicts.

In times of moral crisis, everyone picks a side — even those proclaiming neutrality.

The Korean War upended the constitutional balance of war powers. It has been cited by presidents ever since.

The era of Trump could mark the recovery in American civil society of the moral and political power of global human rights.

As immigration flows changed, Orange County's demographics changed and so did its political leanings.

Homophobia at a CrossFit is a good time to remember that gym culture wouldn’t exist without queer people.

Those who seek to hide the achievements of our greatest men and women are making a monumental mistake.

A review of "She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity."

A review of George Hutchinson's "Facing the Abyss: American Literature and Culture in the 1940s."

White women and the economy of slavery.

On Paul Volcker.

The history of presidential campaigns shows the extent to which the language of politics remains gendered.

Placing Colorado’s early adoption of Prohibition in social and political context.

“Who would you miss more when he goes on vacation,” Nicholson liked to ask, “the secretary of state or your garbage man?”

How immigrant labor struggles shaped the Hawaii we know today.

The ecological history of West Texas challenges the narrative of the region's rugged independence.

The enduring popularity of "The Camp of the Saints" sheds light on nativists' historical opposition to immigration.

Countries are expanding their nuclear arsenals. So why is the public so complacent about the risk of nuclear catastrophe?

The famed agriculturalist deserves to be known for much more than peanuts.

Why relatives of the musician depicted in "Green Book" called the film “a symphony of lies.”

An 18th-century creole slaveholder invented the idea of 'racial prejudice’ to defend diversity among a slaveowning elite.

Alexa’s interface is treated as revolutionary, but you might be surprised to learn of its predecessors from the mid-1980s.

A new book traces the “citymaking process” of riots and rebellions since the era of Dutch colonization to the present.

As young girls, they fought the fierce battle to integrate America’s schools half a century ago.

A high-school yearbook database dating to the 1900s shows how hairstyles, clothing and smiles have changed.

It’s an exhaustive list. Far longer and deeper than you might suspect.

Journalist Elizabeth Gordon had unsparing opinions about the inadequacy of both mainstream and elite notions of design.

On the erasure of American "territories" from US history.

How the region switched from being the stronghold of one party to the base of its adversary.

The number of detained migrant youth has reached record highs and led to lawsuits over the Trump government’s treatment of minors.

In 1939, 20,000 American Nazis rallied in New York. It was billed as a "Pro-American" rally, but championed Hitler and fascism.

A visual exploration of how a critical piece of social infrastructure came to be.

How the film taps into an ongoing debate about artifact collections acquired during the colonial period.

The Green New Deal’s mastermind is a precocious New Yorker with big ambitions. Sound familiar?

Before California was West, it was North and it was East: an arrival point for both Mexican and Chinese immigrants.

On Collier’s 1950 cover story, “Hiroshima, USA: Can Anything Be Done About It?”

In neoliberalism, state power is needed to enforce market relations, but the site of that power must be hidden from politics.

Migrant futboleros in greater Mexico.

The house in American cinema, from the plantation to Chavez Ravine.

How Hollywood portrays religious prayer.