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Women fighting for the ballot saw German men as backward, ignorant, and less worthy of citizenship than themselves.

"Tanglewood" is the first new Sega Genesis game in years - the latest example of gaming developers looking back, not ahead.

Years after ALEC's Truth In Sentencing bills became law, its Prison Industries Act has quietly expanded prison labor nationwide.

A racial stereotype rears its ugly head.

Remembering Castle Garden, a nineteenth-century immigrant welfare state.

In 1858, Lincoln warned that America could not remain “half slave and half free.” The threat today is as existential as it was before the Civil War.

The Founders designed a government that would resist mob rule. They didn’t anticipate how strong the mob could become.

Where's the country music on Pitchfork's Best Albums of the 1980s?

One diagnosis fits all! If you're a woman.

Of all the places to discover a lost city, this pleasing little community seems an unlikely candidate.

Allegations that Nixon beat his wife have circulated for years without serious examination by those who covered his presidency.

Gaming in the shadow Charlottesville's "Unite the Right" rally.

Considering the history of street harassment in light of #MeToo.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

These rare survivors of early African-American art can illuminate much about our difficult history.

Teachers and students love "A People’s History of the United States." But it’s just as limited as the textbooks it replaces.

Current debates about breastfeeding highlight the political nature of changing cultural norms about motherhood.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

In early 1968, the activist planned a massive protest in the nation’s capital.

A collection of more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 photos of former slaves.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

Take a deep dive into this drawing by famed illustrator Thomas Nast.

Olaudah Equiano, native of Africa, survivor of the Middle Passage and enslavement, tells his story.

What one scholar learned from writing an American history consisting of 100 maps.

How a cheesy joke from the 1830s became one of the most widely spoken words in the world.

The great financial catastrophe of our times is still badly misunderstood, despite its grotesque consequences.

Giving in millions has a way of erasing harm done in billions.

Might a new approach to war memorials keep us out of future unnecessary wars?

Histories of the Jews reveal a lot about the times in which they were written.

With democracy in peril, Du Bois reminds us of the long fight to protect it.

We've all heard about Black Power, but what about Teacher Power–a teachers' rights movement recently reawakened?

Medical science has always had a lax relationship to consent – especially with the marginalized.

Hidden tattoos captured soldiers' pride and patriotism, but also had a practical use.

Remembering victims of one of the worst workplace disasters in American history.

African American educators became the ‘hidden provocateurs’ who spearheaded the push for racial justice in education.

The road to the violence around statues is paved with hate, lies, and political gamesmanship.

Bighorn sheep and moose learn to migrate from one another. When they die, that generational know-how is not easily replaced.

On the origins of the Lost Cause of the Lowcountry.

The rights we save may be our own.

Today’s battles over Confederate iconography emerge, in part, out of the failure to address the centrality of slavery to the war.

How did the “moral economy”—a concept that once encompassed a radical critique of capitalism—become the province of billionaires?

But they've always been risky.

How and why the First Amendment became a weapon for the right.

Locomotives. Not trains. Locomotives.

Was the author and poet best known for 'The Jungle Book' and 'Kim' truly a racist imperialist?

A digital archive of first-person accounts from the turn of the 19th century chronicling an unusual display of religious ecstasy.

Because that moment isn’t quite what we remember.

How one 28-year-old feminist bluffed her way into running a copy department and made rock journalism a legitimate endeavor.