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And how black activists won the support of Democratic candidates.

Before free trade became a consensus, Friedrich List argued that U.S. industry should be put first.

The improbable success of the curveball.

Smith wasn’t warning about government intervention in the market; he was warning about government capture.

The city’s campaign of whitewashing dates to the 1800s.

Newly released recordings of 'Citizens’ Council Radio Forum' show white supremacy’s evolution through the civil rights era.

A Q&A with author Katharine Gerbner about "Protestant Supremacy."

It has been nearly 50 years since New York’s jails erupted in protest, but the lessons of that era feel more relevant than ever.

The violent catastrophe of the Virginia colonists is the best founding parable of American history.

For centuries, literalist interpretations of the Book of Genesis have fueled scientific racism and white supremacy.

Fifty years ago, Flood took a stand and paved the way for free agency.

Unearthing the beauty in the wayward, the fiction in the facts, and the thriving existence in the face of a blanked out history.

A new book argues that, politically, messianic movements were often light-years ahead of their time. But at what cost?

To better understand the controversy over New York’s measles outbreak, you have to go back to the late 19th century.

A review of "City of Inmates" by Kelly Lytle Hernández.

The success and brilliance of the new PBS series on Reconstruction is a reminder of the missed opportunity facing the nation.

The Teapot Dome scandal resulted in a 1924 law that gives the House Ways and Means Committee authority to demand returns.

The world that 1968 ushered in is a far cry from the one activists imagined.

In a famous 1910 photograph "In a Piegan Lodge," a small clock appears between two seated Native American men.

Henrietta Lacks's "immortal" cell line, called "HeLa," is used in everything from cancer treatments to vaccines.

Los Angeles and its river have long been enmeshed in an epic struggle for control.

What began as an effort to define and punish trading with the enemy has transformed into economic warfare.

The fight for a full employment bill forty years ago offers lessons for supporters of a job guarantee today.

From the first tenement regulation to work requirements for public-housing residents, these are key moments in housing policy.

The development, use, and marketing of medications for children in the 20th century.

How the entire U.S. came to drink out of a vessel never meant for human lips.

The NFL commissioner is bending to pressure from a reactionary Republican president—something his father refused to do.

How automation changed retail banking.

The author of a book on paramilitary white supremacy discusses the methods and ethics of researching racial violence.

Black America talks back to "The Good Gray Poet" at 200.

The man who wrote one of environmentalism’s most-cited essays was a racist, eugenicist, nativist and Islamaphobe.

There were 22 Abrahams at the event, which began in 1990.

506 years ago, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León landed in what he christened "Florida."

America’s long history of manipulating its headcount for political gain.

A review of Daniel T. Rodgers’ "As a City on a Hill: The Story of America’s Most Famous Lay Sermon."

Reflections from the author of a novel that does not shy away from the question of Lincoln's sexuality.

Calvin Coolidge and others are bringing together student libertarians and trads, but that doesn't make for a coherent coalition.

His testimony before House Un-American Activities Committee was a turning point for the baseball hero.

The function of the "innovation" buzzword is to sustain the myth that business genius creates society’s wealth.

A history of tactile politics.

Federal deposit insurance and the 1980s bank crisis.

An anti-imperialist network made his warning possible.

The 1868 presidential election through the eyes of a Southern white woman.

In 1966, a group of Boston-area parents and administrators created a busing program called METCO to help desegregate schools.

Father and son alike, suspicious of too much charisma.

Mueller report censorship raises the question: what’s the government hiding?

How a rare copy of the U.S.-Navajo Treaty, once thought lost, was found in a New England attic.

In 1880, Frank Hart wowed audiences at New York’s Madison Square Garden by walking 565 miles in six days.

Just as as McCarthyism did decades ago, Trumpism conceals the Republican Party’s long-term program to dismantle the public sector.

Today's Israel lobby is one of the most powerful forces in Washington, but how did it start?