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Some sects of Christian belief have long held that various forms of technology were signs of an approaching apocalypse.

A new book shows the remarkable contrast between 19th-century women’s views of miscarriage and the loss-focused rhetoric of today.

The marketing of stewardesses’ bodies was long an integral part of airline marketing strategies.

These bonuses are not a reaction to a multi-billion-dollar market that rewards winning – they are the foundation of it.

Earl Swift’s Chesapeake Requiem looks at life on a beautiful, vanishing Virginia island in Chesapeake Bay.

The summer's hit songs offered a glimpse into the changing views of Black America.

A side-by-side look at some of the political protests that have shaped American politics over the past hundred years.

Abolishing slavery wasn’t enough. Someone had to actually free the enslaved people of the American south.

Slavery and the legacy of white supremacy.

Mustard now comes in dozens of varieties. Why has ketchup stayed the same?

They have shaped America, but how old were they on Independence Day?

Intra-American trafficking magnified slavery’s impact.

Washington changed the world forever when he crossed the Delaware—for the worse.

I found a couple, and some fascinating history, too.

Why is it called YA anyway? And who decided what was YA and what wasn’t?

Every law student knows John Brady’s name. But few know the story of the bumbling murder that ended in a landmark legal ruling.

New documents reveal that Richard Nixon’s 1968 campaign colluded with a foreign government far more than historians thought.

To depict how waves of immigrants shaped the United States, a team of designers looked to nature as a model.

What is now an object of nostalgia was once a symbol of soulless corporate creep.

Long before “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” holiday songs played a part in the War on Christmas.

Throughout the long and pungent history of humanity, smelling healthy has been as delightful as it has disgusting.

His quest to receive proper compensation illuminates the struggle for artists’ rights.

In 1985, a 16-year-old dropout showed up to school with a shotgun. Everyone said it was just a fluke.

The 45 years of peace between the Cold War superpowers were 45 years of killing for much of the rest of the world.

Remembering Howard Thurman and other forgotten activists.

We can’t fix our immigration policy without understanding its history.

Essays published in a high school paper reflect the boys' efforts to prepare themselves for fighting in the Civil War.

John Adams’s famous defense of the British may not be, as we’ve understood it, an expression of principle and the rule of law.

Much is at stake in understanding the history and relationship between black superheroes and black revolutionaries.

A debate over a planned fence around the site where people of Japanese ancestry, mostly American citizens, were forcibly interned.

Copywriter Robert L. May dreamed up Rudolph during a particularly difficult time in his life.

To alleviate voters' fears during the Civil War, Northern governors refused to open their states to formerly enslaved refugees.

Tillmon and other National Welfare Rights Organization members defied mainstream ideas of feminism in their fight for welfare.

Historians still lack a good way to define, discuss, and address historical actions that appear to be "conspiracies."

Invoking this vague and ever-shifting nemesis has been the right's favorite tactic, and Trump’s victory is its greatest triumph.

What happens when the Patent Office doesn't recognize the inventor as a person at all?

Even Winston Churchill needed a doctor's excuse to get out of Prohibition.

How we outsourced foreign aid to private companies.

But maybe those midcentury classics weren't really Christmas songs at all.

How postwar Christmas embraced spaceships, nukes, and cellophane.

The Republican Party used control of women’s bodies as political capital to shift the balance of power their way.

How the world we live in already happened in 1992.

The Confederate flag remains the symbol of our unfinished reckoning with race and violence for good reason.

A collection of photos of American Nazis – and the Americans who took a stand against them.

Growth is only worth something if it makes people feel good.

As historians turn their attention to animals, they are shedding new light on what it means to be human.

The lady smoking caper of 1908.

Over the past decade, music devoted to the cause of amnesty for undocumented immigrants has flourished across the U.S.

Historians used the Twitter thread to add context and accuracy to the news cycle in 2018. Here’s how they did it.

A new biography of the architect shows why it’s hard to ignore the authoritarian characteristics of some of his most celebrated work.