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The flowing, connected interior has become ubiquitous, and beloved. But it promises a liberation from housework that remains a fantasy.

Godey’s Lady’s Book, one of the most influential American publications of the nineteenth century, tried to halt the Civil War.

The Justice Department lawyers are getting the Founding Fathers all wrong.

A review of "American Honor: The Creation of the Nation’s Ideals during the Revolutionary Era."

Emerging science is putting the lie to American meritocracy.

Ever wondered why email, trash cans, Google Docs and desktops look the way they do? The answer lies in 1960s hippie culture.

January 2017's Women's March wasn't the first time Fifth Avenue in New York City hosted an enormous demonstration.

Nixon sent Trump the letter in 1987 after he impressed the former first lady on television.

“It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.”— Robert E. Lee, at Fredericksburg

There is a long history of congressmen behaving badly.

Six years ago, the world’s biggest library decided to archive every single tweet. Turns out that’s pretty hard to do.

Finding a puzzle from the past in a family member’s basement.

The class divide is already toxic, and is fast becoming unbridgeable. You’re probably part of the problem.

The effort to dig up information about the immigrant ancestors of prominent Trumpsters is doing more harm than good.

Fiery, energetic and preached by charismatic frontmen, Pentecostal Christianity had a big influence on rock and roll in its formative years.

Dwight Eisenhower did more in his first hundred days than change laws—he changed a culture.

Remembering the switchboard operator who listened in on Cohn’s calls with Nancy Reagan, Gloria Vanderbilt, Carlo Gambino, and Trump.

In the 1950s, if a woman wanted to know if she was pregnant, she needed to get her urine injected into a frog.

Teddy used nearly 10 times as many executive orders as his predecessor. The repercussions are still felt today.

America's home front was the site of internment, deportation, and vast property seizure.

A new British television series, Jamestown, set off a minor public debate about just how rebellious women could be in the past.

A small act of protest that resulted in significant change.

A documentary attempts to remember forgotten lynching victims.

Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters in the ’60s.

Kanye West won't win Trump black support. But it will cost West his.

Beekeeping, alien planets, and the limits of narrative as technology.

History is coming to life, and scholars are debating the merits of this wave of re-creation and manipulation.

Why did Alexander Hamilton and James Madison take up the cause of the very thing that revolutionaries had vehemently opposed?

The intellectual father of the job guarantee movement saw it as a replacement for the social safety net.

A reflection on Zora Neale Hurston’s newly-published book, "Barracoon."

The iPhone era has ushered in a new fondness for analog photography that has turned clunky cameras into necessary accessories.

How liberals, over decades, worked to undermine a proposal that has long enjoyed public support.

How a conservative agenda and a feminist cause came together to transform criminal justice.

Franklin Roosevelt had his own Breitbart, and radio was his Twitter.

She was an architect of the civil-rights struggle-and the women's movement. Why haven't you heard of her?

Joshua Speed found his BFF in Abraham Lincoln.

Hunger hasn't always always caused anger and violence - in American history, hunger was more likely to be suppressed.

The founder of a popular South Carolina barbecue restaurant was a white supremacist.

Rather than seeking a national solution, activists are taking to states across America to combat the deep roots of poverty.

What's next for Planned Parenthood?

Emma Ray was a leader in battles against poverty, and for temperance.

With rampant talk of Russian interference, it's worth recounting Washington's role in undermining Russia's 1996 election.

Democrats like Lyndon Johnson staunchly supported Israel. Now the party is leaving that legacy behind.

How is it that the era of neoliberalism coincides almost perfectly with the triumphant rise of a discourse of human rights?

Historian Sara Yael Hirschhorn explains what has driven some American Jews to the most contentious real estate on earth.

Two political pioneers staged a "Pantsuit Revolution."

Melissa Gilbert's lost bid for Congress and the forgotten political history of 'Little House on the Prairie.'

From activist and academic roots, a field takes shape.

How a South Asian immigrant became a Wyoming fast-food legend and received American citizenship - twice.

And why would President Trump bother to change the name?