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Jews in the industry called for the Academy Museum to highlight the men who created the movie business. A voice in my head went, Uh-oh.

When a term signifies something that does not exist, we need to examine our use of it.

The pulsating anger in San Francisco 60 years ago became the party's animating spirit.

On the impact of systematic oppression on indigenous cuisine in the United States.

French theorists said that American native species were inferior to European ones—the former President went to great lengths to show that they were wrong.

In the 1820s, Sarah Hale, a New England widow and the editor of Godey’s Ladies Book made it her mission to get Thanksgiving recognized as a national holiday.

Gender dynamics on the home front, and the ways in which the Civil War is distinct from other American conflicts.

We’ve long viewed them as liberty-loving rebels. But it’s time to take off the eye patch.

What would-be killers of the US commander in chief have in common is that they aren’t fervent ideologues; they’re outcasts.

On the intertwined history of free speech law and media technology.

Laos was collateral damage in the U.S.' secret war. The wounds are visible in the land and in generations still waiting on justice.

On the grand tradition of movies reflecting a deep distrust of those in charge.

The resistance inside prisons is an integral part of the struggle against white supremacy and for Black liberation beyond the walls.

What happens when the automation of music makes it too easy to create and too easy to consume?

She left exactly when we need her most.

The one-room schoolhouse that was one of the birthplaces of the GOP.

For as long as scientists have studied tornadoes, researchers have dreamed of controlling them.

The anthology drama provided a venue for discourses on American national identity during the massive cultural, economic, and political changes occurring at midcentury.

On self-pleasure and sex education in children's literature.

How a tragedy in New York City convinced Americans to learn how to swim.

Humans have doodled for as long as they have written and drawn, but psychoanalysis began to imagine the doodle as a key to understanding the unconscious mind.

The D-Day landings turned the tide of the war, but their success rested on the uncertain calculations of Allied meteorologists.

On defying gender norms and expectations in extreme sports.

Questions linger about the assault on Fort Wagner, which took place on this day in 1863.

Joe Biden is hardly the first president who has decided not to seek a second term—but the circumstances this time are unique.

Lyndsey Stonebridge’s book hurls us deeper into Hannah Arendt’s thinking, showing us that there was muddle rather than method at the heart of it.

What happened to privacy when Americans gained easy access to cameras in the Gilded Age?

The erased histories of the communities that built Seattle.

The essay component of American college applications has a long history, but its purpose has changed over time.

A wetland restoration project is bringing hope to Maui residents who want to honor Lahaina’s history and return water to the town after last year’s fires.

Sinha enlarges the temporal boundaries students are accustomed to by covering the end of the 19th century into the Progressive era with the 19th Amendment.

An in-depth reckoning with the Gates Foundation as a discrete actor is long overdue.

Long before Google Maps, an intrepid inventor with three camera-equipped biplanes captured a groundbreaking view of Gotham in its Jazz Age glory.

The grueling, relentless simulations astronauts that prepared the astronauts for quick decision-making in space.

On the life and times of Jason Epstein, cofounder of “The New York Review of Books.”

On the profound impact of Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" on Noam Chomsky's early embrace of left-libertarian and anarchist ideologies.

When police raided Columbia University in May, commentators drew parallels to the 1968. But the school’s hostility to the antiwar movement traces back to 1917.

Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F spends its final moments on a thrilling cinematic trope of the ’80s, one that I would argue is due for a comeback.

Sean O’Brien’s speech at the RNC may represent a return to nonpartisan realpolitik for unions. But does that reflect labor's strength or its decline?

High ideals have always gone together with economic self-interest in the history of the United States.

Before last weekend’s attack on Donald Trump, would-be assassins targeted Ronald Reagan, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and seven other presidents or candidates.

But they also find key differences.

A new book explores the history of presidents who abused their constitutional power and the citizen movements that stopped them.

Confused 17th-century Europeans argued that human groups were separately created, a precursor to racist thought today.

Japanese were interested when Oppenheimer visited Japan as an honored guest in 1960. Will they be also interested in the Nolan film released today in Japan?

Why are buildings today simple and austere, while buildings of the past were ornate and elaborately ornamented? The answer is not the cost of labor.

BMI is a simple calculation, but how it is translated into a diagnosis is complex and flawed.

Cataloguing basement fallout shelters in the summer of 1967.

For generations of American radicals, the path to liberation required a new constitution, not forced removal.

How Europe reacted when Ethiopia tried to join the famed global sporting tradition at the 1924 Paris Olympics.