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In the nineteen-sixties, artists such as Bo Diddley and the Ike & Tina Turner Revue played the prom at Pembroke-Country Day.

During World War II, the law justified the imprisonment of thousands like Heidi Gurcke Donald.

Those who wish to restore democratic rule, regardless of political orientation, must take it seriously.

The push to make students into customers incentivizes faculty to seek visibility through controversy rather than through traditional scholarly achievement.

For Henry David Thoreau, it is only as strangers that we can see each other as the bearers of divinity we really are.

Looking for the poet between the lines.

Executive trade power has gone too far.

Do people really like Edgar Allen Poe?

A new history traces the development and influence of the global Wages for Housework movement from its founding to present day.

The long tradition of the US government using border policy as a tool for political control, stretching back to Red Scare efforts to suppress left-wing dissent.

Trampling rights, imposing tariffs, gobbling up others’ territories. Trump is imitating his role models to a T.

While academic freedom is foundational to American higher education today, it is a relatively recent development.

Donald Trump is showing us what an unaccountable class of corporate decision-makers looks like—and it looks like a lot of fear, and a terrible loss of freedom.

There’s a long history of politicians targeting student protesters — and of campus leaders abetting those efforts.

A gathering of Union veterans in 1883 sheds light on the country's vision of the American West—as a space for reconciliation and a prize won by the war.

Today’s Trumpist radicals are not (small-c) conservatives – but they stand in the continuity of Modern Conservatism’s defining political project.

Mahmoud Khalil’s case is eerily similar to that of the L.A. Eight when students were targeted not because of any criminal activity but because of their speech.

The books examine the history of space exploration, from the race to discover Pluto to the idea of space colonization.

As Arkansas politics becomes more conservative, voters are using the ballot for progressive ends.

How a small factory off the coast of North Carolina played a role in the war.

In the Tidewater region of Virginia, history is slipping beneath the waves. In the Anthropocene, a complicated past is vanishing.

After February 28, 1967, the main reason to go was to get a job.

Changes to US immigration rules have largely closed the door to new entries, leading inexorably to a “graying” of Irish America.

Sometimes seen as the stuff of commencement addresses, his poems are hard to pin down—just like the man behind them.

A new biography tells a far more complex, nuanced, and, frankly, interesting historical episode than that depicted in the typical grade-school pageant.

The 'human rights president' had some tough political decisions to make regarding Augusto Pinochet in 1979.

How a Black activist watchword got co-opted in the culture war.

The solidarity group Noraid raised millions of dollars to support the Irish republican movement during the Troubles.

On the scholarship and intellectual legacies of Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, William Dunning and other academics.

The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the market must be obeyed at all costs.

Major new books about the peoples who lived in North America for millennia before the arrival of Europeans are reshaping the history of the continent.

It’s only a century since US diplomats first persuaded the world that it’s wrong for countries to annex their neighbours.

Even as “Edges of Ailey” gathers such intimate documents, it does not make them legible to its visitors.

The same Christian ideology that inspired J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI to surveil MLK is alive and well in the Trump administration.

In 1978, Jimmy Carter signed the Airline Deregulation Act. It gave rise to some truly miserable air travel—and neoliberalism.

Trump’s clumsy partisan takeover of the National Archives and Records Administration recalls two consequential and troubling episodes from its history.

DOGE's seizure of government databases is not just an act of bureaucratic reorganization. It is an act of constitutional restructuring.

As a boy, David Edmonston was the source of today’s measles vaccine. Now he regrets vaccine doubts.

The first businessman president realized that working with Congress – not alone or against it – was the best way to create an efficient federal government.

If you think mass protests can’t combat evil, remember what we did in the 1980s.

A new publication obscures the canonical writer.

The Kony 2012 campaign pioneered a new form of online activism — one that served empire more than the people it claimed to help.

That doesn’t mean it’s a good idea.

We risk losing not just the images but also our ability to bear witness to history itself.

Much of the rhetoric surrounding immigration debates is steeped in the language of Revelation, argues New Testament professor Yii-Jan Lin.

Diplomatic relations, domestic repression. Plus: the truth about Joseph Welch, and a bit of family history.

The United States Postal Service is under federal scrutiny. It’s not the first time.

Who decides how history gets written?

Today’s attacks are just the latest form of backlash to the New Deal.

Floyd’s unusual visibility gives rare insight into how the largely-invisible dragomen shaped travelers’ understandings of the Bible and the Holy Land.