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A new exhibit features photos by Hugh Mangum, whose glass plate negatives were salvaged from a North Carolina barn.

A new book traces the role of Richard Oakes in the turbulent but transformative civil rights era of the 1960s and '70s.

Ellen Swallow Richards applied chemistry to the home to advocate for consumer safety and women's education.

An oral history of weed legalization’s first wave in the 1990s.

Historian Mae Ngai reflects on how a century of immigration law created a crisis.

Starting the process will rein in a president undermining American ideals—and bring the debate into Congress, where it belongs.

A digital collection shows how subjective maps can be used to manipulate, rather than present the world as it really is.

Dr. King did not compromise on racial justice. Neither should we.

In August 1966, the Chicago Freedom Movement, Martin Luther King’s campaign to break the grip of segregation, reached its violent culmination.

More than 150 years after Appomattox, Americans are still fighting over the great issues at the heart of the conflict.

The maleness of guitar culture stretches across decades and genres, but necessary corrections to the record are being made.

An analysis of 12 decades of New York Times headlines.

Is the groundswell of popular discontent in Europe and the Americas what’s really threatening democracy?

Democrats should proudly trumpet the New Deal — and extend it.

Why Anthony Scaramucci’s turn on “Celebrity Big Brother” shouldn’t come as a surprise.

A new book bursts the bubble on what we’ve learned about the Civil Rights era to show a larger movement with layers.

'The New York Times' was an early adopter of style guidelines.

Jim Thorpe, Jack Johnson, and the sporting middle ground.

Eleanor Kirk's guide offered a way to break into the boys’ club of publishing.

White traders couldn’t have loaded their ships without help from Africans like my great-grandfather.

Torn from his family in Africa, Pedro Tovookan Parris spent the last years of his short life in rural Maine.

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.”

A review of Gary Dorrien's new book, “Breaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel.”

King's visits to Milwaukee highlighted the extent to which the civil rights struggle was a national one.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 letter written from prison remains one of his most famous works.

Elder Michaux, a popular black evangelist, aided the bureau's campaign to destroy King's reputation.

Fifty years later, the legacies of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy still loom large.

Martin Luther King Jr. on what sparked the violent urban riots of the “long hot summer” of 1967.

Labor unrest harmed Democrats in the 1960s and 1970s. This time the GOP might be the loser.

Scholars don't typically pay that much attention to smells, but odors have historically been quite significant.

100 years ago, an enormous steel tank ruptured, sending a torrent of brown syrup on a deadly path through Boston's North End.

Jill Lepore's widely-praised history of the U.S. relies on the eventual exit of indigenous actors to make way for other dramas.

A timeline of border fortification, from 1945 to the Trump Era.

For more than 70 years, undocumented immigrants have shaped the American economy.

It wasn't always this way.

President Trump's trip to the border Thursday to demand a $5.7 billion wall marks another chapter in the boundary's tortured history.

If “Hamilton” is subversive, the mischievous Reed asks, what is it subverting?

As long as Americans continue to flood into Mexico, the wall will do little to deter crossings.

David Garland makes a powerful argument that will persuade many readers that the death penalty is unwise and unjustified.

Donald Trump says there is “a crisis of the soul” at the border. He is right, though not in the way he thinks.

A compilation of interviews with former U.S. Border Patrol officers who served from the 1930s-1960s.

Lee’s beloved father figure was a talking point during the Kavanaugh hearings and is now coming to Broadway. Is he still a hero?

In uncovering the blackness of Peoples Temple, I began to better understand my community and the need to belong.

In the days of Jim Crow segregation, the "Green Book" that listed locations friendly to black travelers was essential to many.

An interactive map of immigrant populations in the United States.

Interrogating dominant white perspectives in mainstream media outlets, government records, and in the very definition of what constitutes a credible source.

After Sacco and Vanzetti's final appeal was rejected, Felix Frankfurter, then a professor at Harvard Law School, laid out the many problems with their trials.

How the St. Louis Baby Tooth Study reconciled the ritual of childhood tooth loss with the geopolitics of nuclear annihilation.

Fashionable minimalism replaced plush opulence. That’s a recipe for commotion.

In the years after the Civil War, lecturers like E. L. Allen regaled audiences with heartwarming and dramatic tales of battle.