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The debate over confederate iconography arrives in the closest thing the U.S. has to an official church.

A history of every Atlantic storm tracked by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration since 1987.

Discover the unknown history of this fizzy, fermented drink.

Based on a century's worth of NOAA data.

The federal government has long extended amnesty to white Americans.

For decades, only female names were used.

One historian, who also happens to be an evangelical Christian, says no.

The challenges involved in constructing the 9-11 Museum in New York City within the context of other man-made disasters.

The recent unrest in Charlottesville, Virginia, after a white-supremacist rally has stoked some Americans’ fears of a new civil war.

Tearing down monuments is only the beginning to understanding the false narrative of Jim Crow.

Mark Felt wasn’t out to protect American democracy and the rule of law; he was out to get a promotion.

The Jesus People, born on Haight Ashbury, had a profound influence on the Religious Right.

The "father of U.S. gynecology" is usually depicted as either a monstrous butcher or a benevolent healer. It's not that simple.

As Hurricane Irma prepares to strike, it’s worth remembering that Mother Nature never intended us to live here.

A major investigation reveals that white parents are leading a secession movement with dire consequences for black children.

Life expectancy doubled in the past 150 years. Here’s why.

The answers are just as important as the stories that our history books tell.

Science's ethos of self-correction should apply to how it thinks about its own history, too.

In the age of Trump, Madison Grant's influential work of scientific racism takes on a new salience.

Trump's break with tradition may be good or bad, but it's definitely different.

By ending DACA, President Trump seems to be trying to resurrect a national immigration policy defined by racial engineering.

To avoid catastrophe, Kennedy turned to diplomacy. Trump would be wise to do the same.

Many monuments in the South were made in the North — by the same companies, and with the same molds, as those sold to Northern towns.

This is not a monument, it’s a piece of history. But should it be removed from view?

It has to be renamed, state by state.

Old fights about radio have lessons for new fights about the Internet.

In the 1960s, there was no grand vision behind the idea of a middle school. The problem that the model sought to solve was segregation.

How the classic film helped promote a Reconstruction myth that was central to the maintenance of Jim Crow.

The 12-year process of creating a "new normal" in Galveston.

Remembering the radical past of a day now devoted to picnics and back-to-school sales.

The disastrous consequences of focusing on law enforcement and criminality.

The federal agency in charge of hurricane Harvey cleanup has a weird Cold War legacy.

Rethinking the history of Africans in early America.

Americans should build this pivotal post–Civil War era into the new politics of historical memory.

From cross-dressing to white robes to Tiki torches, what we can learn from white supremacists’ long history of carefully cultivating their own aesthetic.

Members of the Ku Klux Klan did not wear their distinctive white uniform until Hollywood—and a mail-order catalog—intervened.

Richard Spencer is a troll and an icon for white supremacists. He was also my high-school classmate.

Only by the most specific, immediate definition can we consider the Confederacy to have lost the Civil War.

Confederate memory nurtured fascism.

Annette Gordon-Reed explores the ways in which the many paradoxes of Jefferson make him a potent figure for racists and anti-racists alike.

The only logic to honoring Lee is to honor treason and treason in the worst possible cause.

Laws preventing the removal of statues raise questions not only about historical legacy but also about local control and public safety.

What we can learn from liberal anti-communists.

Memorials to the Lost Cause have always meant something sinister for the descendants of enslaved people.

Cooling the air was once seen as sinful. Maybe the idea wasn’t entirely wrong.

The ugly roots of the "school choice" movement.

Projected to earn $1 billion and earning Tony-Award glory, 'Hamilton' the musical is still going strong in backyards and classrooms across the country.

The peninsula has a long record of risky games with great powers.

Jacksonian democracy may have been liberating for some, but it was repressive for many others.

All top 1 percent income growth after 2000 came from ownership of capital.