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"We are living in an age of historical reckoning," said Southern Baptist leader R. Albert Mohler Jr.

Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge’s strange elegy for capitalism.

The untold story of how anger became the dominant emotion in our politics and personal lives—and what we can do about it.

In the late 19th and early 20th century, talk about “the environment” had little of its later coherence or political meaning.

Four nineteenth-century authors offered blueprints for a better world—but their progressive visions had a dark side.

CNN's firing of Hill fits into a troubling history of repressing black voices on Palestine.

Rapidly rising metropolitan land value can mean "striking gold" for some landowners while threatening the livelihood of others.

History bleeds in Montgomery, Alabama.

For years, Chicago cops tortured false confessions out of hundreds of black men. Years later, the survivors fought for reparations.

Du Bois's ideas about the environment — and how Jim Crow shaped them — have gone relatively unnoticed by environmental historians.

Cynthia Tucker returns to her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama – also the hometown of Harper Lee, and the site of 17 lynchings.

The Founding Fathers relied on deceit in championing American independence—and that has lessons for the present.

Sarah Igo’s "The Known Citizen" examines the linked histories of privacy and surveillance in the United States.

For decades, the NFL has used patriotism to advance its interests. Now fans expect it to be something it never was.

For now, yesterday is where the money is.

And why you should give smooth jazz a chance.

A decade before Roe, Pat Maginnis’ radical activism—and righteous rage—changed the abortion debate forever.

It's about time.

Who killed J. Robert Oppenheimer's Communist lover?

It saved the Rolling Stones, altered the trajectory of music history, and turns 50 this week.

What happens when we find out writers aren't who they said they were.

On spy fiction.

America’s laws against lingering have roots in Medieval England. The goal has always been to keep anyone “out of place” away.

Philip Roth's work could only have been written by someone who came of age during the peak of postwar liberalism.

About 50 years ago.

The author of "The Second Coming of the KKK" shows an early twentieth-century attempt to go mainstream.

The persistence of a mythic second amendment in contemporary Constitutional culture.

"Marketcraft" is one of the most important functions for any government.

The author of "Ku Klux Kulture" breaks down the ‘mutually beneficial’ relationship between the Klan and the media.

The "celebrity stowaways" of the Jazz Age reached levels of virality similar to today's social media stars.

Why the Trump Era demands a better understanding of how racism got us into this mess.

Other than one or two of the world's supercentenarians, nobody remembers New York in 1911.

How Twitter bots help us understand the founding era.

Because both thinkers neglect political economy, they end up promoting a politics that is responsible for the nation's growing inequality.

In the 1980s, millions of antinuclear activists took to the streets, forcing Western governments to respond to our demands.

The new lynching memorial confronts the racial terrorism that corrupted America—and still does.

The “fetishization” of Appalachia’s supposed racial and ethnic purity and Trump's proposal to end birthright citizenship.

Sometimes you have to break the rules to create a more democratic system.

Historians are using facial recognition software to identify people in Civil War photographs.

Claire L. Evans’s new book is a bittersweet reminder that the internet used to be freer and more fun.

How the JAP became America’s most complex Jewish stereotype.

How American expansion reshaped the religious worlds of both settlers and Native people.

Looking for traces of the last person ever owned by a U.S. president.

It is not just what is remembered that is important, but how it is remembered.

How did it come to pass that a weapon banned for military use was deployed against asylum-seekers on the U.S. border?

What the immediate aftermath of the bombing looked like from the cockpit of a Japanese plane.

That's when the public learned that American multinationals were making enormous bribes to politicians in foreign countries.

How we went from “racist” to “racially tinged.”

Helen Levitt's influential urban photography depicts a time both far away and familiar.

Abortion and America’s new sectional divide.