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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?

What was J. Robert Oppenheimer doing with a book about science in early America?

To fight back against corporate power, cities have to cooperate, not compete.

The blues is not "slave music," but the music of freed African Americans.

Many of the assumptions that guided America’s march to conflict in 2003 still dominate American foreign policy today.   

On VE Day, we remember black Americans' Double V campaign: victory in Europe against fascism, victory at home against racism.

A first-hand account of how intel gleaned from 'enhanced interrogation' was used to make the case for the 2003 invasion.

The golden age of American politics was illiberal, undemocratic, and bloody.

The problems of presidential gigantism can’t be solved by finding the right giant—the office is dying from its own growth.

"Get Off the Track!" borrowed the melody of a racist hit song and helped give a public voice to the abolitionist movement.

The dictator modeled his racial campaign after another conquest of land and people-America's Manifest Destiny.

We're supposed to celebrate one of the weirdest artifacts of the Cold War.

The two men met at Appomattox. The loser would become a role model, the victor an embarrassment.

Reliving the Sinking of the Lusitania Through the Eyes of a Survivor-My Great-Grandmother

315 years. 20,528 voyages. Millions of lives.

The Library of Congress' new exhibition is "Drawing Justice: The Art of Courtroom illustration."

Andrew Jackson was the first president to carry a big stick: he beat a would-be assassin with a cane.

Affirmative action doesn't work. It never did. It's time for a new solution.

The Civil Rights movement ignored one very important, very difficult question. It’s time to answer it.

How the liberal embrace of busing hurt the cause of integration.

On August 7, 1930, three black teenagers were lynched in Marion, Indiana. James Cameron was one of them.

His condemnation of enslaved people’s failure to rebel is drawn from a dangerous ideology that’s older than the United States.

Vietnam created a rupture in the Protestant church.

Signatures are a mark of authenticity.

Exceptionalism has always been core to American patriotism, and American exceptionalism is no longer tenable.

David Blight reviews Ron Chernow's biography of Ulysses S. Grant.

Gender coding and American schools.

Why an historian is compiling a digital database of the military records of 200,000+ black Union soldiers.

The untold story of the eradication of the original Ku Klux Klan.

How the fight to ban "The Birth of a Nation" shaped the nascent civil rights movement.

How do ideological debates on gender roles influence the abortion debate?

The 52-year-old federal program's successes reflect a complex legacy

Until the 1940s, Jews in America were considered a separate race. Their journey to whiteness has important lessons.

A variety of government programs helped white American Catholics get where they are today.

Meet the good white mothers, PTA members, and newspaper columnists who were also committed white supremacists.

Andrew Jackson deserves nothing but contempt from modern America, not a place on our currency.

A year-long series of photographs and stories that explain the struggle between the old South and the new.

The untold story of a failed Russian geoengineering scheme, panic in the Pentagon, and a Nixon-era effort to study global cooling.

Exploring the deep connections between redlining, gentrification, and exclusion in San Francisco.

The Montgomery Advertiser recognizes its own place in the history of racial violence in its own community.

The rise of recorded music left many musicians fearful of a takeover by "canned music."