Excerpts

Revisiting the movies of my youth in the age of #MeToo.

The history of suffragist dining spaces in the U.S.

How our misunderstanding of the Holocaust offers moral cover for the geopolitical disasters of our time.

How the ban on booze gave rise to prejudiced policing, the penal system, and the modern American right wing.

When President Trump contemplates violating court orders, he joins a longer list of presidents.

A survey of 91 presidential historians that ranks U.S. presidents based on ten qualities of presidential leadership.

Yale adopts a new approach to deciding whether Calhoun College and other university properties need new names.

Trump says Amazon is scamming the USPS. But its low shipping rates were a game changer for rural America.

Fifty years after his death, King is a national treasure in the US. But what happened to his revolutionary legacy?

The one consistent message coming out of today's White House was born in the 1970s: Don’t trust any institution.

Uncovering black newspapers from the 19th and 20th centuries can open up new possibilities for teaching African American history.

How America's persistent preference for brash boys over "sivilizing" women fueled the candidacy of Donald Trump.

The kindness of masters is meaningless in the context of a hereditary chattel system that turned humans into property.

Since slavery, dogs have been used to intimidate and control African Americans.

In 1890, the former Confederate capital erected a monument to Robert E. Lee-and reasserted white supremacy.

Is a psychological diagnosis a useful way to view racism-or does it merely absolve the racist of blame?

Operation Wetback didn't merely enforce immigration law-it enforced the idea that American citizens are white.

The argument over renaming Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School is neither trivial nor simple.

President Obama espouses a facile faith in history bending toward perfection and morality-against evidence and reason.

In excavating the story of King’s visit to Harlem Hospital, I uncovered my grandfather’s own fight for civil rights.

It's time to acknowledge that White Catholics’ American dream was built on profits plundered from black women, men, and children.

Lodge's victory in the 1964 New Hampshire primary is a fascinating testament to the power of whim in American elections.

Despite a fractured party and health concerns, FDR capitalized on name recognition to win the 1932 presidential election.

Jeff Sessions tried to jail an activist couple trying to ensure the black residents of Alabama the right to vote.

Much more than time separates the 27th president from the 45th.

After MLK's assassination, James Baldwin attempted to reconcile the divide between the civil rights movement and Black Power.

Since the 1920s, “highway hypnosis” has lulled drivers to disaster.

Elixir Sulfanilamide was a breakthrough antibiotic—until it killed more than 100 people.

Women have long borrowed from men’s dress to claim the authority associated with it. It hasn’t always worked.

The White House wants to reinstate the sale of horses for slaughter, but eating horse meat has always been politically treacherous.

For a century, school showers have anticipated the current debate about bathrooms.

The national dish is really a fusion of immigrant fare.

Martin Luther King Jr. came to Memphis 50 years ago to help 1,300 black sanitation workers on strike. Ozell Ueal was one of them.

The death of Martin Luther King Jr. wasn’t a galvanizing event, but the premature end of a movement that had only just begun.

Johnny Appleseed was based on a real person, John Chapman, who was eccentric enough without the legends.

With roots in race and gender discord, has the “tomboy” label worn out its welcome?

MLK was a master television producer, but the networks had a narrow view of what the black struggle for equality could look like.

In the 1920s, women's love of driving in auto-obsessed Los Angeles created traffic jams and a battle over women’s rightful place.

A review of "The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap."

Nuclear heritage and nuclear stewardship in a quiet desert town.

How did Niagara Falls become the Honeymoon Capital of the World?

Rosa Parks shook the world of Jim Crow by refusing to give up her seat to a white man on her way home from work.

Trump ally Carl Higbie recently cited Japanese internment camps during World War II as a “precedent” for a proposed registry of Muslims in the U.S.

This is not "forbidden knowledge." It is America’s most ancient justification for bigotry and racial inequality.

How a backer of the American Revolution unwittingly shaped the way we count money.

No other city has taken down a monument to a president for his misdeeds, but Arcata is poised to do just that with a statue of William McKinley.

Abortion was first criminalized in the mid 1900s amidst concerns that too many white women were ending their pregnancies.

How spring training has become as much about money and business as about playing the game.

With wiretapping in the headlines and smart speakers in millions of homes, a look back to the early days of eavesdropping.

Soviet ban? What Soviet ban?