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A new study on the toll of contract buying in Chicago during the 1950s and 1960s: $3 billion to $4 billion in lost black wealth.

The Olin Foundation funded the Federalist Society, seminars for judges, and much more.

Oak Bluffs is a complex community that elite families, working-class locals and social-climbing summerers all claim as their own.

Our young nation was very poor, the war was very expensive, and Congress and the states wanted everyone else to pay.

At first glance, frontier towns near the U.S.-Mexico border seem oblivious both of history and of the current political reality.

Ava DuVernay’s miniseries shows why more children had to stand trial as adults than at any other time before this 1989 case.

A century after women won the right to vote, The Atlantic reflects on the grueling fight for suffrage—and what came after.

Revealing these materials could be considered “Hoover’s revenge.”

How the 1960s Black Is Beautiful movement inspired her latest Fenty fashion collection.

Admiral William D. Leahy was instrumental in bringing the Allies together to agree upon the invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe.

Our age-based laws have never made sense. With modern science, they make even less sense.

President Trump’s skirting around Congress to sell arms to Saudi Arabia is only the latest example of presidential overreach.

The furor that erupted throughout New York City cannot be disentangled from the long history of the urban oasis.

Amid reports that Trump may pardon accused or convicted war criminals, it's worth remembering Nixon's response to the My Lai Massacre.

A history sheds light on venture capital’s ties to the military-industrial complex.

It was the original idea behind Medicare itself.

The international ambitions of the US slaveholding class and the abolitionist movement that brought them down.

I reviewed publications from the founding era, and discovered that “executive power” doesn’t imply what most scholars thought.

The nostalgia of some conservatives hearkens back to a different—and irretrievable—economic time.

The shift in attitudes about Nixon's impeachment suggests that Congress' actions can shape public opinion.

When a trillion locusts ate everything in sight.

25 years later, The Bell Curve’s analysis of race and intelligence refuses to die.

Why is U.S. foreign policy dominated by an unelected, often reckless cohort of “the best and the brightest”?

Native Americans say the law protects their children. The Goldwater Institute claims it does the opposite.

Athletes who helped shape our times and the economic freedom that enabled them.

Memphis wants to remove a statue honoring first grand wizard of the KKK.

An inside look at a forgotten Northeast epicenter of smallpox treatment.

The origins of the more passive view of the freedom of the press can be traced back to Benjamin Franklin.

A new history of Reconstruction traces the roots of American “respectability” politics through artwork.

A new study finds that federal drug policy didn’t just send more black men to jail—it also locked them out of higher education.

ARPANET and the development of the internet, 50 years later.

A city on the edge.

On the danger that the US government's habit of redacting official documents poses to democracy.

Kap wasn't the first, and he won't be the last.

On the 1909 National American Woman Suffrage Association Convention in Seattle.

We don't think much about where our waste goes, but the history of what we do with poop is also the history of how we grow food.

The roots musician is inspired by the evolving legacy of the black string band.

Power and ambition in women are often hidden, buried, disguised, crushed, mocked, diminished, punished, or excoriated.

Wire service reporting from the capital provided much of the nation with coverage of federal government and politics.

A neglected theory that helps explain today’s problems.

A review of Kim Phillips-Fein’s "Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics."

A consideration of four recent books that attempt to contend with the rise of Trumpism at home and abroad.

The surprising story of the vigilantes who took it upon themselves to catch bank robbers in the 1920s and 30s.

Single-use plastic is clogging oceans and landfills. The plastic industry has waged a decades-long campaign to keep it selling it.

A century ago, the invocation of science was key to making Americans believe that newcomers were inferior.

The justice used my book to tie abortion to eugenics. But his rendition of the history is incorrect.

A true story of the defining phrase of the Lone Star state.

For decades, book publishers regularly rejected authors on the basis of their race and religion. Their voices deserve to be heard.

From 1966-1969, the underground newspaper 'San Francisco Oracle' became exceedingly popular among counterculture communities.

Once a cask that held crude, the oil barrel is now mostly an economic concept.