Excerpts

There are certainly good grounds to criticize Cold War liberalism. But Samuel Moyn's new book, like similar critiques, has a classic baby-bathwater problem.

Apples no one has ever tasted are still out in the wild. Dave Benscoter, a retired FBI agent, has spent a decade searching for these 100-year-old heirlooms.

Sly and the Family Stone suggested new possibilities in music and life—until it all fell apart.

Like the spies themselves, the image we have of something is often what gets us in trouble.

A deep dive into the historical context and changing meanings of a time-honored term.

Finding the forgotten and racialized landscape of Civil War memory.

The rules were supposed to preserve my community. Instead they are slowly cutting people out of it.

Labor radicals played a crucial role in organizing the struggles to topple gender hierarchies, and should serve as an inspiration for labor feminists today.

Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society, this single 77 by 55 centimeter sheet tells multiple stories in both text and illustration.

In 1873, greed, speculation and overinvestment in railroads sparked a financial crisis that sank the U.S. into more than five years of misery.

Over 136,000 GM workers participated in the strike in Flint, Michigan that became known as 'the strike heard round the world.'

An exhibition exploring the connections between the environment and social justice, using maps and visual materials.

On the history of whaling and how we understand energy consumption.

And it's all thanks to this mother-daughter dream team.

"Texas Jailhouse Music" explores a time when Texas prisons promoted rehabilitation through a wildly successful radio show.

Why women civil rights organizers marginalized at this event, and how that affects our collective memory of the struggle.

Today’s strikers are seeking to renew the broadly shared prosperity that earlier UAW work stoppages created.

By thinking big, Shawn Fain is summoning memories of Walter Reuther and the autoworkers’ union’s finest hour.

The first UAW strike was in the 1930s. Over the next century, the union amassed significant power while demanding higher wages, better benefits and protections.

In the early years of Brooklyn’s gentrification, a 1977 New Yorker piece by Jervis Anderson captured the process in a freeze-frame.

On September 4, 1973, an enormous multitude of Chileans poured into the streets of Santiago to back the besieged government of Salvador Allende.

Betty and Barney Hill lost three hours on a New Hampshire highway in 1961. They spent years trying to understand it.

Hudson Yards received a $6 billion cocktail of public subsidies, including tax breaks and infrastructure improvements, to create a billionaires' playground.

In his latest work of history, Edward Ayers captures daily life along with the military and political moves.

The photojournalist Bud Lee captured the riots of 1967 and the human cost of the brutal police crackdown.

Many faiths face conflicts over institutional control. In Latter-day Saints history, the episode around the ‘September Six’ is particularly memorable.

There's more to Gerald Ford, "the son of a bitch pardoned the son of a bitch,” than Watergate.

A work of millennial scope by a self-taught African-American historian.

Societies celebrate heroes and commemorate tragedies. But why is there so little public acknowledgment of environmental disasters?

What does the academy have against the mother of second-wave feminism?

The current Hollywood strikes have a precedent in Disney’s golden age, when the company was a hothouse of innovation and punishing expectation.

What Betty and Barney Hill's alien abduction story reveals about America.

A worldwide effort to heal damage to the ozone layer is showing early progress.

Martin’s confession relates outlaw adventures that appear to be original. But were they real? 

How the Plattsburg camps tried (and failed) to raise a volunteer army ahead of World War I.

As Confederate monuments were erected, people turned out to vote in lower numbers in predominantly Black areas.

Lionel Trilling crystallizes the cynical Cold War liberalism that sacrificed idealism for self-restraint.

A more sympathetic look at Aaron Burr, the man who killed Alexander Hamilton.

Were Harriet Boyd and Cora Stewart rivals in Greece in 1897? The fog of war has obscured a groundbreaking tale.

A new book identifies the 1968 Democratic convention as the moment when broad public regard for the news media gave way to widespread distrust, and American divisiveness took off.

“It is true that my life has been threatened as the leader of this playground campaign,” wrote Mabel E. Macomber in 1929 from Brooklyn’s Bedford neighborhood.

Friedan was indispensable to second-wave feminism. And yet she was difficult to like.

The 50th anniversary of a groundbreaking work.

A conversation about the Cold War’s profound and negative influence on the liberal worldview.

"Liberalism Against Itself" makes an incoherent attack on liberalism.

During World War II, the OSS sent Moe Berg to Europe, where he gathered intel on Germany's efforts to build an atomic bomb.

In "American Slavers," Sean M. Kelley surveys the relatively unknown history of Americans who traded in slaves in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

During World War II, proto–music videos called “soundies” blared pop patriotism from visual jukeboxes across American bars.

A re-examination of the Age of Exploration may have more than a little to teach us about modern venture capitalists.

Harriet Beecher Stowe said that Josiah Henson’s life had inspired her most famous character. But Henson longed to be recognized by his own name.