Excerpts

Examining the Age of Revolutions through one of its most familiar material markers.

Baldwin demands that the Atlanta child murders be more than a mere media spectacle or crime story, and that black lives matter.

What Southern dynasties’ post-Civil War resurgence tells us about how wealth is really handed down.

Pornographers were in many ways the innovators who fueled the rise of the internet as we know it.

The 45th president, no student of history, marveled at the first president's failure to name his historic compound after himself.

After decades of silence, one man pursues accountability, apologies and the meaning of racial reconciliation.

The Southern-rock group is much different than the one Ronnie Van Zant led in the Seventies.

The burning of Washington presented an opportunity for Jefferson’s books to educate the nation by becoming a national library.

What does it mean to be Muslim in America? And how has the practice of Islam in the U.S. changed over time?

Our identity is mapped at our fingertips, but also, maybe, our individual fate.

This is ultimately a disagreement over how we talk about school segregation.

The local indigenous population was most affected by environmental change resulting from mining in the Klondike.

A songwriter-historian weighs in on the controversy over Lil Nas X’s country-trap hit.

Henry Adams's classic autobiography speaks to concerns of privilege, failure, and progress in his rapidly changing world.

Two new books recount the leading role women have played in Appalachian social justice movements.

Meet the team that transformed baseball from a pastime to an industry.

A new production exposes the darkness that’s always been at the heart of the musical — and the American experiment.

Has Trump permanently damaged the credibility of the presidential office?

A historian looked at the consumer movements of the 1930s to find out.

It's not enough to say that they pick up critical thinking skills. It's time to offer evidence.

Democrats should abandon the specter of the right-wing hard hat, and recognize today's working class for what it really is.

Instead of boosting the American Dream, policies encouraging homeownership exacerbate inequality.

A photographer whose work resembles that of a realist novelist, we observe a cast of characters as they change over time.

During Reconstruction, true citizenship finally seemed in reach for black Americans. Then their dreams were dismantled.

Greg Grandin’s new book charts the past and present of American expansionism and its high human costs.

In the first episode of ‘Voices of the Movement,’ King's associates recount their memories of April 4, 1968.

A new book tells the history of America through its workplace struggles.

After months of political maneuvering, intrigue, backroom bargaining, and furious oratory, the fate of FDR's plan was clear.

A history of trucking in America, told through the music that has kept truckers company on the lonely road.

Awakening from illness, the newly risen patient announced that Jemima had died and that her body had been requisitioned by God for the salvation of humankind.

A lot has been written about the notorious concert, but so much of the language around it has been passive and exonerating.

What we miss when we tell the story of women's rights activism as a strictly national tale.

How mathematics has been shaped by wars, politics, dynasties, and nationalism.

Its meaning can change over time, and over the course of a life.

On why he became a public thinker, the relationship between race and class, and his work in light of new histories of capitalism.

A closer look at the geopolitics of weapons sales through the Cold War, and beyond.

An incredibly preserved set of tracks tell the story of an ancient hunt.

For the first time, we are living in a truly post-cold-war political environment in the United States.

The author of 'High-Risers' revisits 'Candyman,' in which public housing is the greatest horror of all.

In 1907, a patent application for the pigeon camera was submitted.

The film’s hero left a legacy of racist violence in Texas.

How Harold Washington became Chicago’s first black mayor.

Boston and Providence meet the famous Siamese twins, Chang and Eng Bunker.

An early nineteenth-century feminist fights back against a narrow view of woman’s place in society.

What haunted America was not the misty specter of revolution but the solidifying specter of reactionary backlash.

Although he 'spoke' German, the vaudevillian canine captured the heart of the nation.

Benjamin Franklin introduced the magical picture, an experiment that played on the king's beloved image and his deadly force.

The history of the black con artist has been forgotten.

The answer was hidden in the shadows.

Rodriguez has captured celebrities in repose and farmworkers on strike.