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The movement finally gets the big, bold history it deserves.

Max Pine, 91, believes that one day “the Republicans will leap ahead of the Democrats and lead in its enactment.”

The New York Times published the flimsiest defense of Trump’s apparent emoluments violations yet.

Not unless the most dangerous assault in the EPA's history also ends.

It’s probably later than you think, and long after the internet became widespread.

Here’s why that didn’t work during WWI.

For the waterway's 200th anniversary, learn about its creation and impact.

The Marquis de Lafayette's name graces more city parks and streets than perhaps any other foreigner

A nation divided, even at birth.

The first initiative to document historic and cultural sites associated with the LGBT community in the five boroughs.

A Canadian take on America's Revolutionary War.

The beloved board game's long-hidden origin story debunks the myth of a male lone genius.

We should not be surprised by the attacks on Obamacare, they are, in fact, the typical response to social reform.

The culture on Sapelo Island, Georgia was unique.

State-sanctioned efforts to keep the incarcerated from reproducing began in the early 20th century and continue today.

Travel documentation was created to restrict – and it may become even more entrapping in the future.

Despite Jeff Sessions’ new mandate along the border, the Justice Department has prioritized immigration offenses for years.

Today, 1 in 3 American babies are delivered via the procedure, twice what the World Health Organization recommends.

Scott W. Stern’s book documents a decades-long program to incarcerate “promiscuous” women.

A new show, featuring the paper cutouts, reveals unheralded early Americans.

Virginia Dare and the myth of American whiteness.

What today's activists can learn from their victories.

The U.S. Constitution guaranteed freedom of religion, but the fight for religious equality was only just beginning.

An 1866 essay presents Andrew Johnson as "the virtual leader of the Southern reactionary party."

Archaeologists have uncovered the slave quarters of Sally Hemings at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello mansion.

It was a time when promoters were telling women in music: “You can’t put two women on the same bill. People won’t come.”

Mary K. Goddard printed one of the most famous copies of our founding document.

Racial violence destroyed an affluent African-American community, seen as a threat to white-dominated American capitalism.

Out-of-the-can branding helped transform World War II’s rations into a beloved household staple.

By the time the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776, did colonial Americans still sound like their British counterparts?

How Americans went from adventurous eaters to plain janes—and then back again.

This negates a commonly used defense that Confederate symbols represent ‘heritage not hate’.

Donald Trump's children aren't the only family members with political power in the Trump administration.

The worldview laid out in the 94-year old law is still the foundational principle of American immigration policy today.

On Memorial Day weekend, we celebrate an icon of vernacular design.

We should take him seriously. Black Americans have been threatened with deportation before and it never ends well.

In researching his family's past, the author learns of his ancestors' efforts to thrive despite the confines of racial oppression.

Leaked documents reveal coordination between big business and law enforcement to break up last year’s protests at Standing Rock.

Today's Christian nationalists and liberal secularists both oversimplify the history of the nation's founding.

Polarization in Congress began in the 1970s, and its only been getting worse since.

Over the years, there have been surprisingly few of them.

The 37th president used methods of media manipulation that Donald Trump can only fantasize about.

If Dwight Eisenhower or Ronald Reagan were transported to 2017, they would be shocked that the United States is considering an attack on North Korea.

A new study overturns economic orthodoxy and shows that unions reduce inequality.

The most famous Emancipation holiday is more necessary now than it has ever been.

Black power, and the causes it supports, began long before the official Black Power movement.

The Great Dismal Swamp was once a thriving refuge for runaways.

Columbia professor Richard R. John explains the history of U.S. monopolies and why antimonopoly should not be conflated with antitrust.

Decades of tough-on-crime policies that criminalized the poor and people of color are yet to be undone, but the pendulum is beginning to swing.

How every major industry and marketplace in America came to be controlled by a single, monolithic player.