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He would point out that what plagues us are America's sins coming home to roost.

The conclusions of the 1968 Kerner Report portrayed race relations like no other report in history.

The woman whose testimony was central to the infamous case admits feeling 'tender sorrow.'

Historian Richard Breitman tracked the efforts of Anne Frank's family to seek refuge in the US while immigration rules and public attitudes towards immigrants were changing.

Today, nearly 2.2 million Americans are behind bars. Can contemporary mass incarceration's roots be traced to LBJ's Great Society?

Archivists are figuring out which pieces of artists' digital lives to preserve alongside letters, sketchbooks, and scribbled-on napkins.

With the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, George W. Bush restarts a long and troubled tradition.

A review of Michael Kazin's "War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914-1918."

In testimony before a committee of the U.S. Senate, Sarah Binder counters a number of conventionally held notions about the filibuster.

Judicial dissent in the Supreme Court has a long history.

It's impossible to revisit the history of America's quest for racial purity without sometimes being reminded of the current public discourse.

Behind the veil of middle-class acceptability, Archie comics shaped the conception of virtue in postwar America.

The stories of two American soldiers – one part German, the other born in Japan – challenge our romantic view of the "Greatest Generation."

In the 1930s, the federal government created redlining maps for almost every major U.S. city. Explore those maps and their contexts in a brand new version of this project.

During the late 19th century, blacks and whites in the South lived closer together than they do today.

During the Depression, more than a million people of Mexican descent were deported. Author Francisco Balderrama says that most were American citizens.

Six historians unpack the meaning of President Trump's controversial executive order.

A law designed to repair flaws in the fabric of American justice also created new ones.

U.S. immigration policies are inextricably linked to American foreign relations.

Donald Trump’s restrictive plan is reminiscent of legislation from 100 years ago.

One hundred years ago, the U.S. Congress decided that there needed to be severe limits on who was coming into the country.

On the eve of World War 2, most Americans opposed granting asylum to Jewish refugees fleeing Hitler.

How a trio of Harvard-educated blue bloods led a crusade to keep the "undesirables" out and make America great again.

A conversation with the creator of a new social-media project that commemorates refugees the United States turned away in 1939.

The U.S. didn't buy a huge tract of land from France. It bought the right to displace Native Americans from that land.

Why do politicians reverse their positions?

The South couldn't stop the rumors. Can we?

Bicycle mania swept the nation at the end of the 19th century. Can it happen again?

It had not only a pivotal effect in Arizona's own labor history, but also on labor activity throughout the country.

The young Mr. Rogers brings down the house in his 1969 effort to save public broadcasting from the chopping block.

American legislators have been trying – and failing – to achieve universal health coverage for more than a century now.

As first lady, Clinton rejected the ways of Washington and paid a price.

An exercise in understatement that would be funny if it weren't so tragic.

The genealogy of a killing machine.

Profiles of a few of the municipal leaders elected in the wake of the 19th Amendment.

The president's executive orders and inflammatory rhetoric follow a predictable path.