Excerpts

A kinetic slice of Americana so pure you can almost smell Kerouac’s invoked apple pie – or maybe it’s the faint stench of exhaust fumes.

Bourne’s affinity with outsiders drove his vision of making North America a united states of communities. His writings have become more relevant than ever.

The fast-food age began with scrappy entrepreneurship, but corporate concentration has made the chains dull and uninspiring.

When Ghana gained independence, Freddye Henderson facilitated African American tourism to the new nation.

Two legal scholars make the case that President Bush must seek congressional authorization before initiating a preemptive military strike on Iraq.

Though he ended up seeking congressional approval for the Gulf War, Bush was unconvinced he needed it – saying he would have gone regardless of the vote.

America’s devotion to the Middle East did not make much sense in 2003, Bacevich argues; but it did in 1980, and the reason was oil.

My family’s immigrant journey and James Earl Ray’s path to targeting MLK, Jr., intersected at a corner of East Hollywood.

Photography as History in the U.S. South.

If the idea of historical incommensurability is right, then analogical reasoning in history becomes an impossibility.

Remembering a time when composers mattered more.

We invest a great deal of collective energy in commemorating our war dead. But do we remember them?

More than simple racism, the destructive premise at the core of the American settler narrative is that freedom is built upon violent elimination.

At a colonial debutante ball in Texas, girls wear 100 pound dresses and pretend to be Martha Washington. What does it mean to find yourself in the in-between?

The fundamental division between “dope” and medicine has always been the race and class of users.

How Louisa May Alcott found a niche in observing the world around her.

Trump links the assassination of Iranian General Soleimani to the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, positioning himself as Rambo, avenging American humiliation abroad.

America has already witnessed the largest UBI experiment known to history — the postwar middle-class housewife. And she was utterly miserable.

"You can't disentangle blackness and California."

When the phrase became a national obsession, it turned everything from trade rules to dating apps into a potential threat.

What we can learn from him and his legacy.

Trump is just the latest in a long line of executives to stiff-arm the Constitution and ignore congressional powers.

Disco, DJs, and the impact of the 12-inch single.

He's remembered as a person of conscience who carefully broke unjust laws. But his challenges to state authority place him in a much different tradition: radical labor activism.

In 1972, a photo of a Swedish Playboy model was used to create the JPEG. The model herself was mostly a mystery—until now.

The battle over police-torture and reparations in Chicago’s schools.

Three men who brought the terrors of My Lai to light.

The harmful policy was built on a shaky foundation.

The online resource will offer vital details about the toll wrought on the enslaved.

Proudly embracing their role as outsiders, a group of writer-activists set out to create a cultural identity—and a literature—of their own.

The story of America is precisely the heroic story of pioneers who bring the American ideal again and again to the West.

On the self-preservation, testimonies, and solace found in the diaries of black women writers.

A review of the most detailed examination yet published of slavery at Mount Vernon.

The allegations against Michael Jackson make listening to his songs a struggle, one that resists the comfort those songs once provided.

If there’s anything the 2010s taught us, it’s that there is no getting these stories right, no honoring with grace the dead and ghosts.

John Adams worried that “a division of the republic into two great parties … is to be dreaded as the great political evil.”

Some people are young, just not you.

A visual trip back in time to 1977.

When it comes to imperialism, Latin America never forgets, and the United States never remembers.

We say we’re a peaceful nation. Why do our leaders always keep us at war?

The Shah’s reign witnessed years of oppression against the Iranian people, and Carter’s toast added fuel to the fire.

As President Trump’s rhetoric against Iran heats up, it's worth recalling a time when the two countries had a different relationship.

Archival records make clear that the U.S. government was the key actor in the 1953 coup that ousted Mohammad Mosaddeq—not the Iranian clergy.

The long aftermath of a North Carolina man’s decision to deed a plot of land to his former slaves.

The Founding Father’s account of the Constitutional Convention includes a famous conversation about causes for impeachment.

It’s 2020 — do you know where your content is?

The next 9/11 never came. Instead, we got Sandy Hook, and Las Vegas, and Parkland…

In his new book, Daniel Rodgers not only offers a close reading of Puritan history but also seeks to rescue their early critique of market economy.

This year, Merriam-Webster added a new definition to the word “they”: “used to refer to a single person whose gender identity is nonbinary.”

Wherever there has been power, there has been a struggle for narrative control.