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Muslims came to America more than a century before Protestants, and in great numbers. How was their history forgotten?

Government-funded schools evolved from a broader system of public education that couldn't provide what students needed.

"The Common Wind" covers the radical world of black mariners, rebels, and runaways banding together to realize their freedom.

Their experiences help explain why segregated spaces persist in Charleston's restaurants today.

A conversation with the curator of an exhibit about the oft-overlooked lives of women in early colonial Virginia.

The code has undergone minor changes since its creation, but its use persists to this day.

Edward Said's Orientalism is still with us forty years after his influential book’s publication, but it is not the same as it was.

A look at the question of race versus gender in the quest for universal suffrage.

Challenges to the legitimacy of the profession have forced it to examine itself. What, exactly, constitutes a mental disorder?

The discretionary nature of traffic enforcement has left it ripe for abuse.

Before Roe, abortion providers operated on the margins of medicine. They still do.

If “living history” role-plays in the classroom can so easily go wrong, why do teachers keep assigning them?

Or, the pros and Contras of relying on political reporters.

The “Anthony Amendment” was introduced with no luck for 41 years. And even then, it wasn’t for everyone.

Irish-born women were disproportionately imprisoned in America for most of the nineteenth century.

After Republicans lost their first election in 1856, Democrats declared slavery opposition radical and fringe. Then came 1860.

Black homeowners have been an oft ignored actor in metropolitan history despite playing a central role.

How will the historians of the future manage the massive archival data our society has begun to compile on the internet?

The original people of Los Angeles, the Tongva, defined their world as Tovaangar.

A strong woman using a new tool to talk to people who were otherwise overlooked played as a joke for some. But was it effective?

The mirage of the singer's soaring success echoes the mirage of post-war tranquility at home.

In 1932, Hellen Keller offered some advice for the “perplexed businessman.”

Henry Theophilus Finck sought to transform the modern United States, by appealing to Americans' tastebuds.

50 years later, Philip Levine's poem, "They Feed They Lion," helps us remember and understand that time.

The show's rollicking one-liners and bawdy routines paved the way for cutting-edge television satire.

Mamie Phipps Clark came up with the oft-cited “doll test” and provided expert testimony in Brown v. Board of Education.

Confederate monuments were essential pieces of white supremacist propaganda.

Before Linda Brown became the lead plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Education, a generation of black girls and teens led the charge against “separate but equal.”

American portraiture with its visual allure and pictorial storytelling made gun ownership desirable.

Sixty years after the decision, it’s worth remembering it took Congress's Civil Rights Act to finally smash Jim Crow.

The enduring impact of President Johnson’s Crime Commission.

The Kerner report neglected that police were not simply careless with black lives; they deliberately sought to punish black lives.

The Communist Party fought for racial equality in the South, specifically Alabama, where segregation was most oppressive.

Ten years after 'Brown v. Board of Education', Martin Luther King Jr. condemned how little had changed in the nation's classrooms.

Hobsbawm saw his political hopes crumble. He used that defeat to tell the story of our age.

Introducing a new digital history project focused on the ways Americans voted from 1788 to 1825.

How congressional conservatives undermined the civil rights movement through the Tax Reform Act of 1969.

The Lee and Jackson statues were erected not to mourn their deaths, but to glorify their character.

Excavations at a ranch in the southern High Plains show how generations of people adapted to an iconic Western landscape.

A photographer travels to the heart of Appalachia to spend time with the area's last surviving black former coal miners.

His racism and intolerance have always been in evidence; only slowly did he begin to understand how to use them to his advantage.

In ignoring the messy realities of westward expansion, McCullough’s "The Pioneers" is both incomplete and dull.

DC v. Heller recognized an individual right to possess a firearm under the Constitution. Here’s why the case was wrongly decided.

On Ancestry's dangerous move to make it harder to discern which white families owned slaves.

Anna Jarvis spent years fighting the holiday’s commercialization, but that may have hastened its descent into Hallmark territory.

How the Vermont senator went from a third-party independent to a 2020 frontrunner.

What a forgotten trove of videotapes reveals about the man who rewrote America’s political script.

Johnson’s impeachment was driven by his refusal to rid the country of the lingering effects of slavery.

Exploitation and predatory pricing drove the transformation of the beef industry – and created the model for modern agribusiness.

Before the Roe decision, at least 68 South Carolina clergymen actively counseled women on where they should receive abortions.