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The enlistment of black soldiers in the Union Army is well-known, but their Navy counterparts played an integral role, too.

The four-piece lived with the New York Dolls and played with Sid Vicious, but they’ve been largely written out of cultural history.

Only a small percentage of historical interpreters are black, and Cheyney McKnight is trying to change that.

Have historians privileged land-based models and ignored how African Americans participated in aquatic activities?

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

The idea that democracy and billionaires are incompatible might seem radical to conservatives. But to America’s founders, it seemed like common sense.

How the so-called champion of the common man set a precedent for using federal troops to quash labor unrest.

The problem with progressive intellectuals looking to the nation's founders for progressive models.

For all of its strengths, Richard Rothstein’s new book does not account for the central role capitalism played in segregating America's cities.

What is the greatest libertarian accomplishment of all time? The abolition of slavery.

In this 1977 documentary, the spirit of Southern culture is captured through four Mississippi artists who tell their stories.

Episodes from the infamous hip-hop radio show of the '90s.

The midlife crisis went from an obscure psychological theory to a ubiquitous phenomenon.

He was a revolutionary, if one committed to nonviolence. But nonviolence does not exhaust his philosophy.

Running through all of historian Gerald Horne's books are the twin themes of revolution and repression.

The countries that have preoccupied Americans since 1900.

How an Atlanta neighborhood died on the altar of Super Bowl dreams.

On a presidential paper trail.

2016 was not the first election in which a foreign power tried to interfere – Nazis and Soviets tried it too.

“Our cultures are not dead and our civilizations have not been destroyed. Our present tense is evolving as rapidly and creatively as everyone else’s.”

A member of the 1960s-70s collective Computer People for Peace talks about the early days of tech worker organizing.

It shows that labor still has some power, at least when public opinion is on its side.

A central component of the history of racism is the intersection in which geography and race collide.

"1861" is just so 1861.

In the summer of 1941, a group of black men came to play golf at the whites-only East Potomac Park.

An examination of the tragic echoes of Reconstruction-era politics following Obama's presidency.

In Green v. New Kent County, the Court saw school desegregation as a reparative process.

Susan Fenimore Cooper is now being recognized as one of the nation's first environmentalists.

On the 50th anniversary of his death, it’s time to remember who he really was.

In an era of social media and fake news, journalists who have survived the print plunge have new foes to face.

Marvel's heroes are back again, but with little of the subversive aura that once surrounded them.

A new book looks at four different experiments in feminist separatism.

From 1947 until the 1990s, an estimated 10,000 LGBTQ people were pushed out of government and military positions.

A forgotten example of the dangers of silica, the toxic dust behind the modern black lung epidemic in Appalachia.

How two Jewish American political consultants helped create the world’s largest anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.

The comment lament misses crucial context about the style trends and building materials of the past.

A new exhibit features photos by Hugh Mangum, whose glass plate negatives were salvaged from a North Carolina barn.

A new book traces the role of Richard Oakes in the turbulent but transformative civil rights era of the 1960s and '70s.

Ellen Swallow Richards applied chemistry to the home to advocate for consumer safety and women's education.

An oral history of weed legalization’s first wave in the 1990s.

Historian Mae Ngai reflects on how a century of immigration law created a crisis.

Starting the process will rein in a president undermining American ideals—and bring the debate into Congress, where it belongs.

A digital collection shows how subjective maps can be used to manipulate, rather than present the world as it really is.

Dr. King did not compromise on racial justice. Neither should we.

In August 1966, the Chicago Freedom Movement, Martin Luther King’s campaign to break the grip of segregation, reached its violent culmination.

More than 150 years after Appomattox, Americans are still fighting over the great issues at the heart of the conflict.

The maleness of guitar culture stretches across decades and genres, but necessary corrections to the record are being made.

An analysis of 12 decades of New York Times headlines.

Is the groundswell of popular discontent in Europe and the Americas what’s really threatening democracy?

Democrats should proudly trumpet the New Deal — and extend it.