Excerpts

A memoir of the Family Stone.

The economist’s lifelong pugilism wasn’t in spite of his success—it may have been the key to it.

He called black people "an ignorant and inferior race," and it gets worse.

How freedmen navigated an unofficially segregated Methodist Episcopal Church.

Recovering the long-overlooked significance of the “hillbilly highway” in the US, with implications for labor history as well as US history broadly.

This online forum sponsored by the Journal of the Civil War Era features 9 essays and a roundtable on the future of Reconstruction Studies.

When murder won’t rest in peace.

Although major U.S. newspapers hosted thousands of opinion pieces on Israel-Palestine over 50 years, hardly any were actually written by Palestinians.

What 220 years of Haitian independence means for how we tell the story of abolition and the development of human rights around the world.

How "Behold a Pale Horse" found its way to the Wu-Tang Clan, Mobb Deep’s Prodigy, Busta Rhymes, Tupac Shakur, NAS, and more.

Tom Wolfe was no radical.

Pneumatic tubes offered a leap forward in business and communications, in the office and across the city.

Asian American artists who performed for primarily white audiences in the 1930s and ’40s both challenged and solidified racial boundaries in the United States.

Almanacs from the Civil War era reveal how two sides of an embattled nation used data from the natural world to legitimize their claims to statehood.

When Civil War reenacting began, it was largely the province of folks who wished to uphold the Old South myth. Now, a more diverse group of reenactors is pushing back.

The legacy of Operation Pedro Pan, a plan to save Cuban children from communist indoctrination by leaving their families and resettling in the United States.

Maybe what we need is not just a new form of poultry farming but a complete revolution in how we relate to meat.

Leon Uris's bestselling book "Exodus" portrayed the founding of the state of Israel in terms many Americans could relate to.

The archival trove chronicles the extreme measures administrators took to ensure Black sharecroppers did not receive treatment for the venereal disease.

Baby brokers often tricked Indigenous Mayan women into giving up newborns; kidnappers took others. International adoption is now seen as a cover for war crimes.

The assumptions of white priority and white domination suffuse every chapter and every theme of the thousands of textbooks that have blanketed the schools of our country.

The importance of contextualization and critical evaluation in historical analysis.

The right’s long and all-too-unanswered war on liberal institutions claims a big one.

In the 1960s and ’70s, guides began wearing period costumes and farming with historical techniques, a change that coincided with the back-to-the-land movement.

All that talk about "reclaiming" congressional war powers? Historically, Congress has applauded presidential wars.

Reading recommendations from a lifelong education.

“No harm if true; but, in fact, not true.”

How Kahanism infiltrated the political mainstream.

Some of my ancestors had money, and some held awful beliefs. I set out to investigate what I once stood to inherit.

In the 1960s, the government proposed the construction of two dams in the Grand Canyon, potentially flooding much of Grand Canyon National Park.

She was an actress. He was a shortstop. What we can learn from the press parade around this 19th-century power couple.

After 400 years, reality has begun to replace the lies.

A 1990 case from Brown University was the first time a modern university expelled a student for a violation of a "hate speech code.”

On the rise of suburban vigilantes and NIMBYs in the late 20th century and their enduring power today.

A Q&A with Matthew Lassiter about how liberal policymakers and white parents drove the escalation of the War on Drugs.

Johnny Cash wasn't the only superstar to play in prisons. Music, initially allowed as worship, came to be seen as a rockin' tool of rehabilitation.

Historians get hip to the lasting influences of ’60s counterculture

In a few short years, American festivals went from cultural phenomena to endangered species.

A conversation with historian Peter Cole about his recent book, Dockworker Power.

The new punk generation made the hippies look past their prime.

A look at early photography reveals the nuances of California's early development.

A new book investigates the indigenous Americans who were brought to or traveled to Europe in the 1500s—a story central to the beginning of globalization.

How popular and official narratives have obscured the damaging impact of the interstate highway system.

Two new books, including ‘Locking Up Our Own,’ address major blind spots about the causes of America’s carceral failure.

How black plaintiffs in the Jim Crow South sought justice.

Excluding him, wrongfully, by a close vote of the Supreme Court could well trigger the next Civil War.

What might appear to be common values about shared identities can serve not as a bridge but a wedge.

A new history of the ‘New York Times.’

Cold War America resettled unaccompanied minors as an anti-communist imperative. Today, the nation forgets this history.

Hesitancy and opposition to vaccines has existed in the past, and such awareness provides needed context to the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccine within American history.