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Former Secret Service agent Paul Landis, largely silent for 60 years, says he found a bullet in Kennedy’s limo. Here's why that’s so significant, if true.

When I looked at the archives, I found a history hidden in plain sight.

The 1941 strike, following the spectacular success of “Snow White,” stunned Walt Disney and rattled his now-storied company.

Executives feared their newsreel footage would “cause riots and mass hysteria.”

Frank Church and the committee that investigated the US intelligence agencies.

The expansion of higher education in Virginia uprooted hundreds of black families.

One act of generosity during the Great Famine forged a bond that transcends generations.

The Christian right is pushing a slate of laws to stop a new, vague offense they have dubbed “abortion trafficking.”

Repression, mediation, and division of Black resistance from 1906 to the 2020 George Floyd Uprising.

When it comes to the left, the state uses RICO to criminalize radicals as thieves and separate them from a broader base of support.

Some personal reflections on history, memory, and the survival of democracies.

Few realize that the approval process for these outdoor signs varies widely by state and organization, enabling unsanctioned displays to slip through.

Two family histories by Americans connected to Europe’s twentieth century through their fascist grandfathers seek to occupy the void between history and memory.

On Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer.”

Favorite slur too racist? Replace it.

Lord, implored President Biden, let us "turn the page" on the War on Terror. Just not yet.

For decades, the military fired explosives on Vieques. The US citizens who live there still face the consequences.

Sixty-plus years ago, the white leaders of Newport News, Virginia, seized the core of a thriving Black community to build a college.

Finding space for cars has remade the built world. A new history uncovers just how much our lives revolve around parking.

In the late 1800s, advice writers targeting white, middle-class Americans began encouraging men to become more engaged in the emotional lives of their households.

After the Whig president’s shocking death, his vice president and successor proved to be a Whig by expedience only

Critics of the Supreme Court think it has lost its claim to legitimacy. But proposals for reforming it must strike a balance with preserving its independence.

The basketball great is now better known for his tie-dye and enthusiastic sports commentary, but in the 1970s, he was a polarizing anti-government activist.

Without the now-obscure land investment affair, Georgia might have been a "super state."

When journalist Dorothy Tucker first learned about the 10 Million Names genealogical project, it helped amplify memories of long car journeys to “Down South."

The forgotten figure symbolized the hopes—and myths—of the early United States.

All along the South Carolina coast, developers looking to profit on vacation getaways and new homes are targeting land owned by descendants of enslaved people.

While we may never know the full truth, we owe it to those harmed and killed to illuminate their stories.

Urban socialists blazed a path toward social democracy. Leftists who want to reclaim this tradition face a whole new set of obstacles.

Advanced Placement courses are no recipe for igniting the intellect beyond high school. They’re a recipe for extinguishing it.

What a whaling captain’s logbook can teach us about sperm whales and our oceans.

Seeking rural solitude, urban Southern Californians ventured into the Mojave Desert, armed with pickaxes and dreams but facing harsh landscapes and red tape.

On the Road with Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and John Burroughs.

Golden prairies of a Minnesota state park also hold the burial sites of Dakota people who died as the U.S. failed to fulfill treaties with Native Americans.

Fifty years after the military coup that brought down Salvador Allende and installed Pinochet as dicator, top secret US documents still need to be declassified.

"The Day After Trinity" and "The Strangest Dream" evacuate the mythical tropes of the tortured genius biopic that Hollywood loves to rehearse.

Songwriting credits since 1958, broken down by gender.

Many of the reasons for strikes now mirror the motives that workers had for walking off the job in decades past.

Decades of Supreme Court decisions have converted qualified immunity from a commonsense rule into a powerful doctrine that deprives people injured by police misconduct of recourse.

Malcolm Ross is unknown today. That’s too bad. This son of privilege has much to teach us about labor and civic leadership.

James Garfield is known primarily for being assassinated. But his life reveals the character of nineteenth-century America.

Miners in the Democratic Republic of Congo face few protections in the global rush for metals in energy transition—a toxic legacy from mining nuclear weapons.

The founding and funding of conservative media on college campuses in the 1960s.

Ron DeSantis wants to retrofit history to conform to conservative ideology.

David Grann’s sweeping history of crimes against the Osage people.

For decades, Philadelphia has struggled with poverty and gun violence. Social uplift organizations of the past have demonstrated that racial equity is the key.

The biopic starring Helen Mirren shies away from the moral implications of Golda Meir’s decisions.

To fully understand the deep roots of today’s white Christian nationalism, we need to go back at least to 1493.

A short history of hand-colored photos during the Civil War era.

A new book explores the Army’s struggles with race relations in the decades of civil rights and Black Power.