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The repressive machine currently arrayed against campus protests follows a familiar pattern.

In Indiana, “hoosier” is a badge of honor. In St Louis, it’s the nastiest insult around. The difference reveals the prejudice that breaks worker solidarity.

From 'The Tattooist of Auschwitz' to 'We Were the Lucky Ones,' a new wave of Holocaust dramas feel surprisingly shallow.

While some of the worst behavior has come from local and state police, university police have shown themselves to be just as capable of brutality.

Like student protesters today, Martin Luther King Jr. and other 1960s civil rights activists were criticized as disruptive and disorderly.

In the wake of George Floyd’s murder, a school board in Virginia stripped the names of Confederate military figures from two schools.

The website version of an app designed to be a digital guide to the legacy of Till’s murder.

On revisiting the anti-imperialism of the 1960s and ’70s amid the return of left internationalism.

At the Habsburg Convention in Plano.

Pope Francis is the only world leader who seems prepared to denounce war.

A brief history of the textfile, and the production of conspiracy theories on the internet.

The response to college protests against the war on Gaza exemplifies the darkness of the Trumpocene.

The election will be a challenge for Joe Biden. But looking to the past won’t help him—or us—understand what lies ahead.

This oral history project records testimony from individuals who were active in the fight for racial equality in New Orleans between 1954 and 1976.

The politics of eccentric men in the early United States.

The university where 13 student protesters were killed or injured during the Vietnam War era worries that other schools have learned nothing from its history.

Today's pro-Palestinian activists are utilizing anti-apartheid tactics from thirty years ago.

On May 1, 1924, the first iodized salt appeared on shelves, quickly solving an iodine deficiency crisis that plagued the northern U.S. “goiter belt.”

At the height of circus animal acts in the late nineteenth century, animals who killed their captors might be publicly executed for their “crimes.”

Donald Trump says he will authorize a roundup of all 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country. A 1950s program with similar goals offers lessons.

A collection of records from the Nixon Presidential Library and other sources on the internal debates Nixon advisors were having about climate change and environment.

On Laura Helton’s “Scattered and Fugitive Things.”

As the 150th Kentucky Derby kicks off, the achievements of jockey Oliver Lewis and trainer Ansel Williamson at the first Derby have been largely forgotten.

For Ellen and William Craft, a flight from bondage required a daring masquerade, with exposure a constant risk.

A sweeping new history examines many untold stories of the American West in the late nineteenth century.

Americans have always borrowed, but how exactly did their lives become so entangled with the power of plastic cards?

In a new book, Robert KD Colby of the University of Mississippi shows how the Confederacy remained committed to slavery.

The struggles of a century ago show that historians need to keep explaining their work and role to the public.

Examining how William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass interpreted the nation's relationship with the Constitution.

Despite frequent litigation, U.S. courts have created a blurry line that puts administrators in an impossible situation.

On museum ethics and animal welfare in 19th century America.

How a little-known, century-old law perpetuated the odious notion that certain types of immigrants degrade our nation’s character.

A longtime resident of Shoe Lane chronicled the life of his community as it was demolished by Christopher Newport University. His photographs helped a reporter seek accountability.

When the creator of MDMA first experimented with the drug, he felt a mellow sensation that he compared to "a low-calorie martini."

On the mechanics of Wall Street’s influence on key institutions of American democracy, from the New Deal to today.

From food rationing to drafting soldiers, preparedness and all it involved included a full-scale reorganization of American society, including the NYPD.

From villain to antihero, nationalist to freedom fighter, the comic book character has always been a reflection of the Jewish cultural identity.

In the midst of the Depression, Conroy helped encourage a new generation of working-class writers.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s “On Death and Dying” sparked a revolution in end-of-life care. But soon she began to deny mortality altogether.

Universities spent years saying that activism is not just welcome but encouraged on their campuses. Students took them at their word.

The Comte de Buffon's thirty-six volume Natural History claimed that America was a land of degeneracy. That enraged Thomas Jefferson.

How the ANC went from an organization whose role in the struggle was hotly debated, to being widely hailed as the heir to the international anti-apartheid movement.

How a New Deal senator’s anti-monopoly investigations changed American business.

What's in a name? According to the "Dictionary of American Family Names," it depends.

The enduring necessity (and importance) of a nearly 200-year-old technology.

A new history argues that illiberalism is not a backlash but a central feature from the founding to today.

New books examine the place of work in our lives—and how people throughout history have tried to change it.

As the first Native American Cabinet member, the Secretary of the Interior has made it part of her job to address the travesties of the past.

When "The Emancipator" was first published in 1820, its original owner had to answer for why he owned Nancy and her five children.

A whistle-stop train tour, and some plain speaking spur Harry Truman's come from behind win in 1948 over Thomas Dewey.