Excerpts

A new book shows how women's leadership in black nationalist movements has always been hidden in plain sight.

In 1990, one of America's most beloved sitcoms took on the HIV epidemic with humor and sensitivity.

Education for women and emerging nationhood, illustrated with care and charm.

The long, entwined history of America First and the American dream.

There’s no consensus on abolishing the Electoral College, which has countered the popular vote in two of the past five presidential elections.

The uncanny realism of Orson Welles’s radio play crystallised a fear of communication technology that haunts us today.

“The Improbable Wendell Willkie” offers a look at how American politics might have been.

The horrors of the fugitive slave laws, the costs of union, and the value of comity.

Decades before WikiLeaks, Philip Agee’s magazine blew the cover of more than 2,000 CIA officers.

The 140-year journey from the streets of London's East End to the parking lot of your nearest mall.

(And what everyone read instead.)

Four historians weigh in on evangelicals' affinity for Trump – and their commitment to the conservative movement more broadly.

One of the war's greatest battles was fought again and again on a spectacular canvas nearly 400 feet long.

Religious conservatives used the Bush presidency to launch their takeover of the GOP.

An online forum on the life and legacy of Frederick Douglass.

How the U.S. invasion of Panama ushered in the post-Cold War era of military unilateralism and preemptive war.

How monopolies have flourished—and undermined democracy.

Our understanding of Malcolm X is inextricably linked to his autobiography, but newly discovered materials force us to reexamine his legacy.

A Proctor & Gamble ad-man on the Lower East Side recognized a big marketing opportunity when he saw one.

A brief history of Trans Fats.

Long before parents freaked over the ubiquitous video game, they flipped out over another newfangled fad.

A new book examines the first generation of button-pushing Americans at the turn of the 20th century.

The 41st president put self-interest over principle time and time again.

Revisiting Holfstadter's "paranoid style" in the era of Trump.

City dwellers of the 19th century were dogged by a foul terror: miasma.

The self-congratulatory legacies of ‘A Face in the Crowd.’

The problem of how to reconcile irreconcilable values is what led to the Civil War. It hasn’t gone away.

How Dorothy Porter assembled and organized a premier Africana research collection.

How the CIA’s first attempt at regime change nearly failed.

Could President Trump actually win over the leaders of historically black colleges and universities?

His accounts of polarization in ancient Athens are as relevant today they were thousands of years ago.

If there’s one thing worth taking away from the new White House report on socialism, it’s that economics is a political argument.

Author Sarah Churchwell on the entangled history of America’s most loaded phrases.

On writing the story of America, the rise and fall of the fact, and how women’s intellectual authority is undermined.

Memorials of World War I should focus on the truth—that it was bloody and pointless.

Zbigniew Brzezinski’s Cold War.

In the last decade, taxpayers have spent at least $40 million on Confederate monuments and groups that perpetuate racist ideology.

A Supreme Court case about jurisdiction in an obscure murder has huge implications for tribes.

History tells us that Trump's proposed wall will not work, and that it will do more damage than good.

Surprising lessons from Lebanon’s Conflict in the 1970s.

Reliving the events of 1998 was traumatic, yes—but also worth it, if it helps another young person avoid being “That Woman”-ed.

The population of every state, visualized like a horse race.

The war had turned forestry work into a form of civil defense, and prisoners a new army on the home front.

In the wake of the 2008 financial collapse, no undergraduate area of study has fallen off more than history.

We should look to history – not prehistory – to understand current political challenges.

Three new genetics studies present a fascinating, complex picture of how the first people in America spread across two continents.

George Soros after the open society.

Thanksgiving is a holiday about food – but it is more specifically a holiday about food’s absence.

A new book argues that race and racism fueled the fires of the American Revolution.

A Native student explains why the holiday is a painful reminder of a whitewashed past.