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George W. Bush committed an international crime that killed hundreds of thousands of people.

It offers a narrow vision of the activists who fought for equality.

Between the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement, about a thousand black southerners sued whites who had wronged them.

T. Thomas Fortune changed Black History, and seems to have been forgotten.

Ignoring the moral imperative of repairing slavery's wounds because it might be “divisive” reinforces a myth of white innocence.

The fear and hysteria that led to Japanese interment during World War II was manufactured for corporate profit.

It was motivated in part by white Southerners' concerns about taxes, but ended up being all about maintaining their political power.

When he promised to put America first in his inaugural speech, Donald Trump drew on a slogan with a long and sinister history.

Fifty years later, Bobby Kennedy’s passionate, inspiring, and tragic presidential campaign still fascinates.

From Mickey to Maus, tracing the evolution of the pictures, panels, and text that brought comic books to life.

Babies have been playing in the political arena for a long time.

American has long been suspicious of “elites”, but just who they are has changed a lot over the last 200 years.

It took more than five decades for advocates of statehood to vanquish white supremacists in Washington.

The rising tie between black activism and pro-Palestinian advocacy.

The Cold War says more about how U.S. elites imagined their “freedom” than it does about enabling other people to be free.

Blaine was never as recognizable as Elvis or Sinatra. Still, he was key to the creation of some of rock n' roll's biggest hits.

A long-overdue excavation of the book that Hitler called his “bible,” and the man who wrote it.

On reckoning with a fraught literary history.

“How to Hide an Empire,” explores America far beyond the borders of the Lower 48.

Synthetics created in the 20th century have become an evolutionary force, altering human biology and the web of life.

The fashion trend is shorn entirely of the racism and colonial entitlement it once cloaked.

Archivists face a battery of technical and ethical questions with few precedents.

The U.S. needs a historical reckoning with the true cause of the border crisis: the long, brutal history of border enforcement itself.

How the Klan’s extensive networks of patriarchal power enabled abusive men to prey on women.

How can we be sure the atrocities of the past will stay in the past?

Exploring John Cleves Symmes Jr.’s obsession with a hollow Earth.

In the 1980s, vice-president George H.W. Bush was secretly the most important decision-maker in America's intelligence world.

The black pioneers who tried to start over out west.

Trump inherits a branch of government already well equipped to undermine democracy.

Social conservatives won some and lost some since Pat laid down the marker.

We have the Swedes and William Henry Harrison to thank for the popularization of the log cabin.

From the 80s onwards, the borderlands were rife with paramilitary cruelty and racism. But the president’s rhetoric has thrown fuel on the fire.

In the minds of some Southern Protestants, slavery had been divinely sanctioned.

In 1917, the U.S. Navy built a full-size battleship in the heart of New York City.

It has long been an important element of U.S. international affairs.

It’s time to reckon with the true history of the mythologized Texas landmark—and the racism and imperialism it represents.

While sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention has recently come to light, it's not new.

For decades, Democrats have positioned themselves as fiscally responsible while Republicans happily hand tax cuts to the rich.

Whether it ran smoothly or ground to a halt, the mail offered daily reminders that the hand of war touched every aspect of life.

To convert was not just a matter of belief, but also a claim to power.

It’s not the 1990s anymore. People want the government to help solve big problems. Here’s how the Democrats must respond.

If we are going to fund a Green New Deal, we need to acknowledge how the original actually worked.

Since the 1980s, activists in Philadelphia have argued that the city has always been a refuge for asylum seekers.

Cyclist Tillie Anderson shattered records, dominated her competition, and earned the world champion title.

It’s the 200th anniversary of Frederick Douglass’s birth, and some on the right have been crashing the party.

People without the means to visit America's wonders could finally picture it for themselves.

Wilma Rudolph won three Olympic golds and was among the first athletes to use her celebrity to fight for civil rights.

A name, now famously associated with a mass school shooting, belonged to a strong advocate for the Everglades.

Bones uncovered at the Manassas National Battlefield Park provide insights into surgery during the Civil War.

A few of Encyclopædia Britannica’s famous readers, on the occasion of its 250th anniversary.