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“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.

Why Anthony Scaramucci’s turn on “Celebrity Big Brother” shouldn’t come as a surprise.

A new book bursts the bubble on what we’ve learned about the Civil Rights era to show a larger movement with layers.

'The New York Times' was an early adopter of style guidelines.

Jim Thorpe, Jack Johnson, and the sporting middle ground.

Eleanor Kirk's guide offered a way to break into the boys’ club of publishing.

White traders couldn’t have loaded their ships without help from Africans like my great-grandfather.

Torn from his family in Africa, Pedro Tovookan Parris spent the last years of his short life in rural Maine.

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.”

A review of Gary Dorrien's new book, “Breaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel.”

King's visits to Milwaukee highlighted the extent to which the civil rights struggle was a national one.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 letter written from prison remains one of his most famous works.

Elder Michaux, a popular black evangelist, aided the bureau's campaign to destroy King's reputation.

Fifty years later, the legacies of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy still loom large.

Martin Luther King Jr. on what sparked the violent urban riots of the “long hot summer” of 1967.

Labor unrest harmed Democrats in the 1960s and 1970s. This time the GOP might be the loser.

Scholars don't typically pay that much attention to smells, but odors have historically been quite significant.

100 years ago, an enormous steel tank ruptured, sending a torrent of brown syrup on a deadly path through Boston's North End.

Jill Lepore's widely-praised history of the U.S. relies on the eventual exit of indigenous actors to make way for other dramas.

A timeline of border fortification, from 1945 to the Trump Era.