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The Vermont senator isn’t religious, but a victory in Iowa or New Hampshire would be the first ever for a Jewish presidential candidate.

Where was the president in the eight hours after the Sept. 11 attacks? The strange, harrowing journey of Air Force One, as told by people on board.

What she doesn't get about race and the Civil War.

We need literature that wrestles with the evils of slavery while confronting its complexity – especially when it’s written for children

A visualization of who came from where, when.

How the entertainer was blacklisted for standing up to the President.

How eugenics shaped America's immigration policy.

President Trump's grandfather made the choice to leave his German family for the U.S. all the way back in 1885.

A strange and bittersweet ballad of kidnapping, stolen identity and unlikely stardom.

America has always discriminated in the name of national security. It’s just gotten better at pretending it’s not.

It used to be that nobody would admit to opposing a nominee for ideological reasons. Should we be happy that illusion is over?

A personal investigation of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864.

Puerto Ricans were forced to become “Porto Ricans” – adopting Anglo customs while subsidizing American profits.

Barry R. Harwood says of George Hunzinger's work, “No one else was doing this. They didn’t have a name for it yet.”

Remembering how the white working class got left out of the New Left, and why we're all paying for it today.

The cabaret law—and its prejudicial history—is one of the city's darkest secrets.

Elizabeth Hinton discusses how twentieth-century policymakers anticipated the explosion of the prison population.

A review of a handful of new books that embody the new liberal originalism.

A century ago, millions of Americans banded together to reform the KKK, the rest turned a blind eye.

In her newest book, Barbara Ehrenreich attacks the "epidemic" of wellness.

Esquire, 1940: “Salads are really the man’s department... Only a man can make a perfect salad.”

A century ago, these documents were used to reinforce segregation. Today, they’re being used to impose binary identities on transgender people.

In the 1720s, French colonial authorities seized children off the streets of Paris and forced them to settle the New World.

After the drug was dismissed by the pharmaceutical company that developed it, a researcher started experimenting on himself with it. Powerful hallucinations ensued.

It is only recently that domestic abuse was identified as a serious, public social problem.

South Carolina’s Ben Tillman and the 2016 presidential election.

The civil rights activist and her family had to contend with racial discrimination beyond Montgomery.

And how the Rolling Stones, a band in love with black music, helped lead the way to rock’s segregated future.

Like the abolitionists of yesteryear, white Americans who oppose racial oppression deserve to be remembered and emulated.

Stumbling on a forgotten Reconstruction tragedy, in a forgotten corner of Louisiana.

Here's how they were able to do their jobs long before the Internet.

Both the nation and the Church have depended on the energy and expertise of nuns. They’re vanishing. Now what?

Why do people hike?

"None of us really understands what's going on with all these numbers."

In Nogales, Arizona, the United States and Mexico agreed to build walls separating their countries.

The Janus decision is a significant setback for democracy. What should public-sector workers do now?

Enslaved wet nurses were a valued purchase in the antebellum South.

The war brought many couples together. It also drove many apart.

The world’s most popular fast food has ancient roots and a royal pedigree.

His photo of Kim Phuc was a transformative moment in a horrible conflict.

The redistricting revolution, fifty years later.

Before it became the New World, the Western Hemisphere was an altogether more salubrious place to live at the time than, say, Europe.

In an effort to address centuries of systemic racism, a new online tool seeks to connect Black, brown, and Indigenous farmers with land and resources.

With Diner, Barry Levinson turned a film about nothing into a male-bonding classic, launched careers, and spawned hits from Seinfeld to The Office.

The influential activist was a strong proponent of Pan-Africanism.

The marriage of twentieth-century avant-gardists Arthur Cravan and Mina Loy was blissfully happy—until his mysterious disappearance.

The nineteenth-century bourgeoisie used morality to assert class dominance — something elites still do today.

Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump may prove that having once been a Democrat is an asset for a Republican presidential nominee for president

When the Supreme Court willfully misreads the Constitution, FDR’s plan doesn’t seem so bad.

Before you grab the 'raw,' some thoughts on how food was before safety and labeling regs were passed.