Excerpts

Mifepristone took longer to get approved than most drugs—but not because it was unsafe.

British occupation brought challenges to the very foundation of the American home.

A mid-1960s “do-it-yourself” project produced “credible nuclear weapon” design from open sources.

For market radicals and neo-Confederates, secession is the path to a world that’s socially divided but economically integrated—separate but global.

An interview with sociologist and historian of psychiatry Andrew Scull about the history and legacy of psychiatric deinstitutionalization.

From kosher butchers, fruit peddlers, and herring dealers on the Lower East Side to supermarket innovators across the country

What the author of "If—" learned about empire from the United States

An ongoing research project telling the stories of all the known lynching victims who were killed in Virginia between 1866 and 1932.

A digital annotated bibliography and multimedia archive about Black women country blues guitarists.

The veterans of Kagnew Station saw the early growth of the surveillance state. Has the passage of time given them a new understanding of their work?

On the racial wealth gap.

Historian James Oakes offers a critique of the New History of Capitalism.

Her new book tells the story of Black people through an exploration of the color blue.

The White House’s decision to delete a DOJ database of Jan. 6 cases puts those who seek to preserve the historical record in opposition to their own government.

Commentary from the heads of two prominent historical associations on Trump’s recent executive order on “radical indoctrination” in schools.

American law says schools must honor the Pledge of Allegiance. Schools may have other plans.

In 1931, Herbert O. Yardley published a tell-all book about his experiences leading a covert government agency called the Cipher Bureau.

Hard thinking on difficult and uncomfortable questions about how to keep everything from falling apart.

You’re passionate. Purpose-driven. Dreaming big, working hard, making it happen. And now they’ve got you where they want you.

The history of enslaved firefighters offers a cautionary tale about the dangers of relying on involuntary labor to fight blazes.

Trump is freezing the United States’ foreign aid agency, which grew from our relief efforts over the world’s wars and crises.

Created in 1867, the short-lived office was mired in the ongoing American strife after the Civil War.

Kennedy wants to create "wellness drug rehabilitation farms." But the U.S. tried it before, and it didn't work.

How America’s search for total security keeps making the world more dangerous.

Rethinking the job of history — and the American Historical Association — after the veto of the Gaza “scholasticide” resolution.

Opponents of birthright citizenship say there weren't any “illegal aliens” when the 14th Amendment was drafted. They're wrong.

William H. Townsend drew the rebels as they stood trial, leaving behind an invaluable record.

A new book reveals the jazz musician’s mother and sister were arrested several times for prostitution in New Orleans.

Standardized forensic exams are a useful tool for sexual-violence investigations—or they would be if police departments consistently tested their findings.

The attack on it is a violation of the nation’s post–Civil War rebirth.

Amazon will never be neighbourly.

The left case for an independent Canada.

The Mexican origins of the birth control pill, and the trade dispute with the U.S. it generated.

A swamp with a busy road going right through the middle, Washington’s airport was called “a disgrace.”

Efforts to target immigrants amid the 1992 L.A. Uprising point to what deportations might look like under Trump 2.0.

Defending academic freedom doesn’t mean exaggerating the threats to it.

How an erroneous 18th-century story about the “Caucasian race” led to a centuries of prejudice and misapprehension.

The region has unique political traditions tailor-made for the momentum gathering behind economic populism in the Democratic Party.

We have yet to solve the problems that Carter confronted head-on as president.

While modern women poets have found inspiration, collard references appeared in racist limericks during Jim Crow.

A narrative not of brain drain but of Black aspiration.

Nine Inch Nails, the Manson Family, and the contradictions of Los Angeles.

For more than a century, conservation policy has focused on economic development and wisely using natural resources.

Comparing Trump to Hitler and Mussolini obscures the basis of his mass appeal.

The Ordinance, which prioritized cars on the city’s roadways, quickly became the template for the country.

And a walk downtown in search of her saloon, the Bucket of Blood.

President Woodrow Wilson presided over the segregation of government workers, putting Black people behind screens and in cages in 1913.

The general’s campaign through the South is known for its brutality against civilians. For the enslaved who followed his army, though, it was a shot at freedom.

Abortion exceptions in legal history.

Or, a brief history of today's erasure of history.