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Passengers angered by how they are treated during flight, may find an unlikely ally in the labor movement.

Those who honor Jackie Robinson must remember his importance outside the baseball diamond.

America’s most iconic automaker plans to drive almost all of their passenger sedans into the sunset by 2020.

Twenty years ago, Microsoft tried to eliminate its competition in the race for the internet's future. The government had other ideas.

In the 1930s, Soviet leaders decided that black American authors could teach Russians “to write social poetry.”

Is the Baby Boomer generation to blame for America's crumbling roads, galloping income inequality, bitter polarization and dysfunctional government?

When a "scofflaw carnival" occupied the L.A. aqueduct.

Only in the past 100 years has unauthorized immigration become a crime.

A series of deadly shark attacks by the Matawan Man-Eater shook New Jersey and prompted President Wilson to declare war on sharks.

A graphic history of the community displaced for the vast public park in 1857.

Music scholar Katya Deve explores the history and geography of hip-hop.

It was all about the parallels between a new "bathroom bill" and the Jim Crow segregation of her youth.

The Web dwells in a never-ending present. The Wayback Machine aims to preserve its past.

On revolution and violence.

The origins of rock and roll are unknown, but no one can deny the role Chuck Berry played.

Never mind Fox. Trump’s most reliable media mouthpiece is now Christian TV.

A review of a "The Low Road," a “mordantly anti-Hamiltonian” play that made its debut at New York's Public Theater this spring.

The chilling tale of a tragedy that was seemingly erased from the American consciousness.

A new documentary on Michael Brown comes just in time.

The ubiquitous plastic vessel has come a long way.

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."