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Beyond three strands of hair interlocked around each other, there's a complicated story.

The U.S. has long supplied the world with AR-15 rifles. But only when we see its grim effects at home do politicians call for restricting its sale.

Fast-food workers in the Fight for $15 movement are making the same demands sanitation workers made five decades ago.

The hidden cost of formal recognition for American Indian tribes.

The film draws on centuries of black dreams of independence to create Wakanda.

The resistance to the Vietnam War was the most diverse and dynamic antiwar movement in U.S. history. We have all but forgotten it today.

The rise and fall of Clintonism.

The mythology of cowboy culture is aggressively white, but there was always a black West.

An art historian explains how portraits can convey so much more than mere likeness.

Across the cislunar blackness, we set sail for a landing that almost didn't happen.

A major black novelist made a remarkable début. How did he disappear?

In 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln delivered one of the most famous speeches in U.S. history.

The film's hero and antagonist represent dueling responses to five centuries of African exploitation at the hands of the West.

The early history of American arms trading is missing from most of the scholarship on guns.

How Stone Mountain could become a battlefield where neo-Confederates from across the country make their last stand.

By connecting liberation at home with an end to U.S. militarism abroad, today's black activists are picking up where MLK left off.

Reveal’s analysis of mortgage data found evidence of modern-day redlining in 61 metro areas across the country.

White farmers, threatened by Japanese-Americans' success, played a critical role in the creation of internment camps.

It's part of the glorification of the military that's been happening since the first Gulf War.

How hamburgers became a staple of the American diet.

What Atari was really like, according to the women that were there.

Since the Mexican-American War, Army regulars haven't always been treated as heroes.

How Angels in America put Roy Cohn into the definitive story of AIDS.

African American marriages before and after the Civil War.

The Cold War and the President’s Council on Physical Fitness.

The Courage and Comic Genius of Groundbreaking Female Stand-Ups

In the hamlet where U.S. troops killed hundreds of civilians, survivors are ready to forgive the most infamous American soldier.

Fifty years after Loving v. Virginia, four scholars consider the legacy of the famous Supreme Court decision.

Back when video of Vinny Licciardi smashing a computer zigzagged all over the internet, "viral" wan't even a thing yet.

Frederick Douglas had another, lesser known, impact on Baltimore.

The steady hand behind more than 30 No. 1 country hits.

A look at the ornate float and costume designs from Carnival’s “Golden Age."

Frederick Douglass’ 1852 speech is widely known as one of the greatest abolitionist speeches ever.

Before Tinder, there was “Singles News.”

Today’s populist resurgence has us rethinking the role these movements play in U.S. politics.

Unlike many economists today, they questioned fundamental social structure.

Even Twain's own autobiography cannot reveal the whole truth of the literary legend.

Soldiers and their families, sometimes barely literate, wrote to assuage fear and convey love.

A new book about the My Lai massacre raises the question: how much of an aberration was the infamous wartime episode?

The Father of the U.S. Constitution fought a life-long physical battle, too.

The debate between "originalism" and the "living constitution" rages on. What does history say?

The amazing true story of Bass Reeves, the formerly enslaved man who patrolled the Wild West.

After my son died, how could I know anything for certain?

The Olympics have long enabled global superpowers to enact their political and ideological conflicts in sport.

Why the Clinton Administration is to blame for creating a permanent underclass of undocumented immigrants.

The Trump Administration has clamored for a military parade. What are the origins of tank-led celebrations?

A review of "The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America."

The roots of the influential institution at the center of the Trump-Russia investigation.

Former slaves claimed the president came to plantations disguised as a beggar or a peddler, telling them they’d soon be free. 

Two former anti-doping professionals think the fight against performance-enhancing drugs is doing more harm than good.