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The 1927 disaster exposed a country divided by stereotypes, united by modernity.

A roundup of historians' commentary about Billy Graham in the wake of his death.

How Americans got so weird about science.

Jeffrey Conner has collected over 1,000 headbadges from old bicycles.

In search of the photographer who captured the Beatles' final concert on film.

When trailers offered a compact version of the American dream.

The radical vision of Wages for Housework.

On country music as a lens through which to trace the corporatization of American farming.

Revisiting the arduous path of 18th-century fur trader Alexander Mackenzie.

The myth that Appalachia is uniformly White lingers, but communities of “Affrilachians” were documented in the 1930s.

Economic analyses of the antebellum era upend the notion that Southern whites were united in their support of slavery.

How Walt Whitman became the quintessential poet of disability and death.

Three new books paint a more nuanced portrait of the American militias whose gun rights have been protected since the founding.

Eric Foner, Walter Johnson, Thavolia Glymph, and Annette Gordon-Reed discuss trends in the study of slavery and emancipation.

What can making now tell us about the past? Or should the past remain untouched?

The University of Virginia has long been a bastion of white supremacy and white supremacy–validating scholarship.

Our launch protocols were designed to bypass checks and balances for a quick retaliation.

Thanks to federal immigration policies, immigration from Ireland has all but dried up.

The myth of Irish slavery has found fertile ground in Internet memes as a way to derail conversation about the need for affirmative action today.

Dozens of newly declassified documents show foreign service staff raising serious concerns about a range of U.S. policies abroad.

Fifty years ago, teenagers organized a multi-school walkout that galvanized the Mexican-American community in Los Angeles.

Willa Cather's life and work broke with the standards of her time.

A review of "Closing the Courthouse Door: How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable" by Erwin Chemerinsky.

Jeff Bezos is stealing from a 19th-century playbook.

In the 1970s, women and people of color streamed into unions, strikes swept the nation, and employers launched a fierce counterattack.

The rise, fall, and afterlife of George Sterling’s California arts colony.

The fourth president tried all kinds of sanctions to open markets, but still ended up in the War of 1812.

An intimate portrait of a once-prosperous town in a forgotten corner of America.

“The law itself was very, very broad.”

As businesses are pressured to abandon the NRA, one scholar looks at the efficacy of boycotts past.

With its race issue, the magazine is trying a different direction. Can it escape its past?

Student walkouts have changed American history before. Here's how.

To make a more perfect union, don’t look to the Founding Fathers.

A mix of journalistic mistakes and partisan hackery advanced a pernicious lie about Democrats and the Klan.

Kinston, NC has faced immense adversity, yet it has become the NBA capital of the world.

How do museum gift shops at Civil War sites shape historical memory?

Looking back at the golden era of rap writing.

Unfortunately, there’s not an unlimited amount of daylight that we can squeeze out of our clocks.

To those outside the black community, the Nation of Islam’s persistent appeal, despite its bigotry, can seem incomprehensible.

If women were going to be judged by their appearance, then the suffragists wanted to shape their own image.

There isn’t much turnover with these selections.

The anti-Semitic seeds of its use were firmly planted 75 years ago.

The duck-and-cover school exercises from the nuclear era are being invoked as a parallel to active shooter drills.

The 2016 election wasn't the first time that a disinformation campaign was used against America.

"Masterless Men" shows how poor whites benefited from slavery's end, but does not diminish the experiences of the enslaved.

"Masterless Men" shows how the antebellum political economy made poor southern whites into a volatile, and potentially disruptive, class.

A case study from Texas in how Lost Cause mythology was promoted and reified.

On Edward Said, othering, and the depictions of Arabs in America.

Frustrated with foreign interference in our elections? So are the people of Latin America.

Its text and context don’t ensure an unlimited individual right to bear any kind and number of weapons by anyone.