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Wild accusations, alternative facts, special prosecutors—the Salem witch trials of 1692 had it all.

Women in the workplace, from 19th century domestic workers to the Rosies of World War II to the labs of Silicon Valley.

Frances Hodgson Burnett's biographer considers her life and how personal tragedy underpinned the creation of her most famous work.

The author of a new biography explains how Murray changed the way that discrimination is understood today.

In 1830, Boston had just concluded a radical experiment — a high school for girls.

The cultural, political, and technological roots of a fraught piece of cotton.

Who in the reproductive rights debate can claim Susan B. Anthony?

White southern men who didn't own slaves often escaped to the swamps to avoid conscription and wait out the Civil War.

Private-labeled teas helped fund success during the suffragist movement. Today’s activists might learn from their model.

The origins of the Hallmark holiday are rooted in a much greater cause.

She is remembered for being a "first," but it was her integrity, courageousness, and conviction that made her an icon.

Understanding the politics behind Cooper Union's 'We Dissent' exhibition.

What gets lost when it’s only the rebel girls who get lionized?

How the Toledo Troopers, the most dominant female football team of all time, met their match.

As history shows, efficiency without ethics can be catastrophic.

A database of fugitives from American Slavery.

The co-winners of the 2018 Frederick Douglass Book Prize on researching slavery.

A new history of the early republic explores the origins of originalism.

A story of a philosopher, his sister, and belief.

Looking back at the year of the moon landing, Woodstock, and more.

I told her we were brought over the Rio Grande on a raft. I never called it a smuggling.

A century after the tragedies that shaped the nation's race relations.

There’s a bad synergy at work between the short-termism of the news cycle and the longue durée-ism of the academy.

A review of Robert Dallek's book, "Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life."

How would Bayard Rustin be judged today?

Why the nation's ninth vice-president – and his black wife – were purposely forgotten.

The question isn’t whether they have anything of value to offer. It’s whether they can avoid partisan vituperation along the way.

A dark chapter in the history of religious persecution.

How a team of lawyers exposed lies about police violence.

Throughout the history of civilization, board games have been used as propaganda to support ideologies and lifestyles.

Our ethics and desires can shape digital networks at least as forcefully as those networks influence us.

Without them, the economy of the American South would never would have recovered after the Civil War.

Not a white equivalent of Black History Month, but a better understanding of the concept of whiteness and the harm it inflicts.

In times of moral crisis, everyone picks a side — even those proclaiming neutrality.

The Korean War upended the constitutional balance of war powers. It has been cited by presidents ever since.

The era of Trump could mark the recovery in American civil society of the moral and political power of global human rights.

As immigration flows changed, Orange County's demographics changed and so did its political leanings.

Homophobia at a CrossFit is a good time to remember that gym culture wouldn’t exist without queer people.

Those who seek to hide the achievements of our greatest men and women are making a monumental mistake.

A review of "She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity."

A review of George Hutchinson's "Facing the Abyss: American Literature and Culture in the 1940s."

White women and the economy of slavery.

On Paul Volcker.

The history of presidential campaigns shows the extent to which the language of politics remains gendered.

Placing Colorado’s early adoption of Prohibition in social and political context.

“Who would you miss more when he goes on vacation,” Nicholson liked to ask, “the secretary of state or your garbage man?”

How immigrant labor struggles shaped the Hawaii we know today.

The ecological history of West Texas challenges the narrative of the region's rugged independence.

The enduring popularity of "The Camp of the Saints" sheds light on nativists' historical opposition to immigration.

Countries are expanding their nuclear arsenals. So why is the public so complacent about the risk of nuclear catastrophe?