Excerpts

The struggle over blood and belonging in American Indian communities.

Though the practice is now more associated with Halloween, spooking out your family is well within the Christmas spirit.

The #MeToo movement is not the first time women have publicly stood up to sexual harassment.

To the framers, working in secret was meant to deliver enlightened legislation.

Nearly six million Americans are prohibited from voting in the United States today due to felony convictions.

The long road from FDR to Trump.

Rosie the Riveter wasn’t the only woman who pitched in on the homefront.

“Some people call me Hillbilly, Some people call me Mountain Man; Well, you can call me Appalachia, ’Cause Appalachia is what I am.” —Del McCoury

A reminder of history's proximity is prompted by a visit to the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Lighting, trash burning, powerlines, playing with matches – how do they rank as causes of wildfire?

The Boston Globe’s Spotlight Team confronts one of the city’s most vexing issues.

“Yes, Virginia” is the most reprinted newspaper piece in American history, and this guy wrote it.

A researcher in Boston discovers that the beloved Christmas favorite was first performed in a Boston minstrel hall.

He risked his life to expose Emmett Till’s death and the Freedom Rides to a national audience.

Today’s Republicans would have fit right into Herbert Hoover’s administration.

A new history argues that the Second Amendment was intended to perpetuate white settlers' violence toward Native Americans.

FCC regulations have long promoted innovation that benefits consumers, not stifled it.

How today's media landscape was shaped by a 1920s decision to privilege corporate broadcasters over noncommercial ones.

We must understand America's history of inequality to confront the racial wealth gap.

What was Alabama back then? And what is Alabama right now?

An interactive set of maps documenting the more than 300,000 families displaced by urban renewal projects between 1955 and 1966.

How the state’s past spurred a racial reckoning.

Haunting archival footage of Stone Mountain's creation.

How did truckers nudge the American economy toward deregulation?

A glimpse inside the Alabama State House suggests that the civil rights movement may have reached its end.

#MeToo must go beyond the demand for punishment.

The congressman who Alabamians later complained "made them the laughing stock of the Union."

Men accepted women’s rise to prominence, but used sexual coercion to maintain control.

The current level of fire danger is so high that the U.S. Forest Service has described them using the color purple, to signify “extreme.”

Why fiery crosses, white robes, and the American flag were seized upon by the 1920s Klan in its campaign for white nationalism.

Why French revolutionaries, in need of an image to represent the all important “will of the people”, turned to the thunderbolt.

W.E.B. Du Bois on the beauty of sorrow songs.

They're the hunters, not the hunted.

A new report says the sugar industry pulled the plug on evidence linking sugar consumption to heart disease.

Inspired by Trump's election and his anti-immigrant policies, a group of scholars compiled this collection on the idea of "sanctuary."

We often forget that Nixon took decidely liberal stances on welfare, healthcare, and universal basic income.

If you look hard enough, you can almost find ideological consistency in the Republicans’ breathtaking tax bill.

The myth of the “dependent” poor.

Decades after civil rights laws overruled policies that starved non-white neighborhoods of investment, deep disparities linger.

And why it was so hard to see it coming.

From the Stamp Act of 1765 to the Tea Party Movement, how have – and haven't – American attitudes about taxes changed over time?

The history of Time's 'Person of the Year' exemplifies the problem that led to this year's winner.

Archivists are working to document our chaotic, opaque, algorithmically complex world—and in many cases, they simply can’t.

We might be better off if we knew a little more – or a little less – about her actual life.

The nation's first African-American president was a disaster for black wealth.

Land redistribution could have served as the primary means of reparations for former slaves. Instead, it did exactly the opposite.

A lifelong fan reflects on how sexual exploitation is part of rock's DNA.

The notion that a government’s chief obligation is getting stuff done is a fairly recent arrival on the historical scene.

Cold War politics empowered democracy — and dictatorship.

Political polarization in the U.S. mirrors its spatial divide.