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One of the key factors in what happened in 1967 in Detroit has long gone overlooked

In many ways, silent film was an art form entirely different from the "talkies" we enjoy today.

Where coloring books came from says something about what they are today.

What to know before equating "fire and fury" to the "rain of ruin."

How does one talk about cancer, something so unpleasant that is almost always linked with death, and where do metaphors come in?

Decades before "The L Word," Edythe Eyde knew her magazine for lesbians — Vice Versa — was illegal.

A historian turned novelist ponders the absence of women from America's historical archives.

Researchers suggest effects of the Colonial Era can be detected in rocks or even air.

Black women have always been equal partners in, if not central to, the tradition of Black protest and liberation movements.

Rewatching “The Apprentice,” the show that made his Presidency possible.

And why Congress should do more to wrest back control of economic sanctions.

How a Boston rebellion became an American Revolution is a story too seldom told because it is one we take for granted.

Police brutality has been a hot topic in contemporary society, but when did this all really start and where did dogs get involved?

The classic baseball hit "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" has a lot more to do with U.S. history than one might think.

The prospective series takes as its premise an ugly truth that black Americans are forced to live every day: What if the Confederacy wasn’t wholly defeated?

HBO's “Confederate” assumes America is much further from its slaveholding past than it really is.

The long road to "Citizens United."

By seeking to talk to Soviet leaders and end the Cold War, Reagan helped to win it.

The scholar who coined the phrase "net neutrality" explains why the agency's latest move represents such a radical break.

From the first exchange of gunfire in 1865 to the 1953 ceasefire, and beyond.

Liberal Democrats sidestepped Congress to bring free trade to the U.S. Now, Trump is able to do the same thing to destroy it.

President Trump is repeating the mistakes of the Great Depression.

The NFL's response to player protests reflects decades of League and U.S. attempts to portray false images of post-racial harmony.

Rachel Herrmann asks whether there’s such a thing as “American food.”

Are you part of the problem?

In her new book, ‘True Sex,’ historian Emily Skidmore looks at their lives and how society has treated them.

Donald Trump has been playing a lot of golf since becoming president. Can his habit be explained by his "sky-high extroversion?"

For the frontier women of the 19th century, the experience of childbirth was harrowing, and even just expressing fear was considered a privilege.

The president’s patriotic pageant renews a question dating back to the first White House visit by a champion sports team.

Popularized by Thomas Jefferson, this versatile dish fulfills our nation’s quest for the ‘cheapest protein possible.’

He “put the history of slavery at the center of our understanding of American history.”

Why the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision was a major loss for gay rights.

Clarence Darrow’s unfinished work.

Is polygamy justifiable? Is it lawful to eat swine's flesh?

It's been a tough year for the Georgia peach.

Today, many politicians claim a community approach means soft on crime. Birmingham's Johnnie Johnson Jr. disagrees.

The precedents for Trump’s hyped-up immigration crackdown.

A disenchanted San Franciscan rides west with a motley crew of pioneers.

The most important civil rights achievement didn't come from Congress or the Court. It came from Harry Truman.

A search for the source of Southern hip-hop’s magic will always lead you to three men from Atlanta, known to the world as Organized Noize.

You and I have grown up during a period in which comedy became strangely bound up with truth and virtue. Trump has cut the knot.

The documentary, "The House on Coco Road" tells the little-known story of Grenada's revolution and subsequent U.S. invasion.

What E.B. White, Mickey Spillane, Death Wish, hip-hop, and the “Summer of Hell” have in common.

In a world where Confederate flags continue to fly, it is hard not to cry “enough” at this continued emphasis on all-things-Confederate.

With so little documentary evidence about his life, he is a virtual blank slate upon which different people at different times have inscribed a variety of meanings.

An interview with the legendary folklorist, who fundamentally changed America’s understanding of the South.

The symbol was born from a dark time in history.

The shootings occurred two years before the deaths at Kent State University, but remain a little-known incident in the Civil Rights Movement.

How the Enlightenment created modern race thinking, and why we should confront it.

Adams, whose 250th birthday is today, did not end slavery but his battle against the House "Gag Rule" helped pave the way.