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The United States’ destruction of Iraq remains the worst international crime of our time. Its perpetrators remain free and its horrors are buried.

A new account sheds light on the Ford administration’s war against Sen. Frank Church and his landmark effort to rein in a lawless intelligence community.

The American commercialized version of Mother's Day isn't what the founder intended.

How Lincoln's administration financed the Civil War and transformed the nation's decentralized economy into the global juggernaut of the postwar centuries.

A conversation on Du Bois' perspective on empire and democracy, the development of his anti-imperial thought, and his vision for transnational solidarity.

The long history undergirding our harsh bipartisan migration policies.

Alex Haley’s transcript of his famous 'Playboy' interview with Martin Luther King Jr. does not match what was published.

On the music’s African-American tributaries, its unpredictable politics, country radio’s woman problem, and working on Ken Burns’ forthcoming doc.

An unlikely pair of Southern California businessmen paved the way for the sushi revolution in Los Angeles, upending American dining — and their own lives.

We revere the man and revile the strategy, but King knew what he was doing.

The Washington state law provides low-interest loans for down payments for those harmed by racially restrictive covenants.

For 50 years, this bizarre act was one of the Atlantic City's biggest attractions.

Does recognizing the importance of conservatism in the twentieth century make us see the arc of American history in a new way?

As ‘The Jerry Springer Show’ climbed the ratings ladder, the censorship bleep became a star of the show.

Fifty years ago, the Oglala Sioux Civil Rights Organization invited the American Indian Movement to Pine Ridge and reignited a resistance that has not left.

Slave labor, overcrowding, and unmarked graves — the buried history of Atlanta City Prison Farm from the 1950s to 1990s shows it’s no place of honor.

Conflict over centralization, political power, and national identity were not unique occurrences in the Americas during the middle decades of the 19th century.

Regulators with no democratic accountability keep bailing out banks and big depositors — at the cost of billions to taxpayers.

Is the century-old battle metaphor doing more harm than good to doctors and patients alike?

The first South Asians in British North America.

A never-before-published tranche of letters reveals the white-collar racism that prevented the world’s most popular athlete from selling Fords.

William O. Douglas was a strong advocate of conservation, but as a Supreme Court justice his involvement in such issues was often ethically questionable.

“A brand mascot that jumped off the cereal box”: a TV critic explains the multimedia character Trump created.

Lewis Leary, who volunteered in John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, later inspired poetry by Langston Hughes.

Narrated photo journal of time spent with a family to discuss poverty and race.

Jo Ann Robinson is unfortunately overlooked by history.

When do wars end, and who gets to decide? These deceptively simple questions are actually quite difficult to answer.

Americans have long nurtured mixed feelings about age and aged leaders. Yet during the country’s founding, a young America admired venerable old sages.

The lawsuit against Controlled Digital Lending is about giving corporations—rather than readers, buyers, borrowers, or authors—control over content.

Pennyroyal is a species of mint with purple flowers. It smells like spearmint. And it has been used as an abortifacient for over two thousand years.

Two elephants living at a Miami Beach resort blurred the boundaries between work and leisure in 1920s Florida.

Compared to 19th-century arrivals, today's new arrivals are much more likely to be at the extreme ends of the earnings spectrum.

The secret, often missing ingredient to building a majoritarian progressive coalition.

The idea that non-white immigrants are, generally speaking, new to the Midwest could not be further from the truth.

It is impossible to understand the U.S. without understanding its Indigenous history, writes Ned Blackhawk.

Rumors that enslaved Black New Yorkers were planning a revolt spread across Manhattan even more quickly than the fires for which they were being blamed.

The writings of Emma Goldman entered the public domain. Here is an introduction to Goldman's life and her particular brand of anarchism.

In April 1940, Walter Barnes and His Royal Creolians continued to play to calm the crowd as the Natchez Rhythm Night Club burned.

But “Lunch atop a Skyscraper,” which was taken during the Great Depression, has come to represent the country's resilience, especially on Labor Day.

Black jockeys dominated 19th-century American horse racing, but racism chased them away and undoing that damage has been slow going.

The room at One Police Plaza, jammed to the ceiling with filing cabinets and boxes, and reeking of vinegar, held about 180,000 images ranging from 1914 to 1972.

A century of recorded music has culminated in the infinite archive of streaming platforms. But is it really better for listeners?

Historian Walter Russell Mead has become the favorite Trump whisperer for everyone from Steve Bannon to Tom Cotton.

After Charles Hatfield began his work to wring water from the skies, San Diego experienced its wettest period in recorded history.

Europeans translated the "Chinese Book of Changes" in the nineteenth century, but the philosophy really took off in the West after 1924.

Saddled with debt and forbidden by the crown to mint money, Boston’s Puritans dreamed up a novel monetary system that we still use today.

Gun control is actually an American tradition.

Americans have often been politically divided. But have the divisions over how we recount our history ever been so deep?

Doctors who sterilized Carrie Buck said she was a “feeble-minded” woman whose future offspring posed a threat to society. Her life paints a different picture.

In his new book, historian Nicholas Dagen Bloom chronicles the collapse of public transportation in US cities — and explains who really deserves the blame.