Excerpts

On Kliph Nesteroff’s book, “Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars.”

On the pro-business transformation of the Democratic Party.

America's forgotten migration – the journeys of a million African-Americans from the tobacco South to the cotton South.

Peddling lies goes back to antiquity, but during the Tabloid Wars of the 19th-century it reached the widespread outcry and fever pitch of scandal familiar today.

Universal Camouflage Pattern became a symbol of an unpopular war. Today, it’s being reappraised by those too young to remember the invasion of Iraq.

Who's to blame for failures in 2000, 2001 & 2008?

A conversation with Jill Lepore about the past decade — “a time that felt like a time, felt like history.”

With "Force and Freedom," Carter Jackson makes a stimulating and insightful debut which will have a major influence on abolition movement scholarship.

A bad history.

A racist mob forced Opal Lee and her family from their Fort Worth home. Now she has been given the land and a new house is being built for her.

Our water bottle obsession speaks to deeper historical trends.

James Longstreet became an apostate for supporting black civil rights during Reconstruction.

In early America, the soaring ideals behind establishing a new democracy were marked by cycles of progress and backlash.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, students at America’s elite universities were treated differently based on the social stature of their parents.

Military archives reveal the brutal history of slavery in the U.S. Army.

There was really only one big difference between liberal drug warriors and conservative ones.

Bayard Rustin tried to forge a mass coalition to deliver progressive change. His failure to do so in the 1960s tells us much about building one today.

Samuel W. Franklin’s latest book explains how we sold ourselves out to a fake virtue.

What has fueled the hostility between the U.S. and North Korea for decades?

The new podcast discusses how purity is woven into many of the myths that have fed White supremacy in the nation’s past and continue to do so today.

George Leonidas Leslie is still waiting for his HBO series.

Chicago economists had free rein in Chile. The country is still recovering.

After Congress robbed Washingtonians of local and federal representation, decades of activism -- slowed by racist opposition -- finally succeeded in 1973.

In Charleston, a monument to John C. Calhoun squares off against its symbolic rival, the steeple of Emanuel A.M.E. Church, where a white supremacist killed nine.

A 1941 novel by a former Communist Party member about the dog-eat-dog scumbaggery of movie executives and the lying and artless bragging that Hollywood runs on.

The revolutionaries of 1968 didn't succeed, but the world still needs turning upside down.

Tracing the evolution and challenges of fact-checking in journalism.

The Lakota advocate helped thousands of domestic abuse survivors, Native and non-Native alike.

Look closely—very closely—at a Sunday comic strip in a printed newspaper.

Learn more about the story of Matilda Gage, whose writings inspired the witches in "The Wizard of Oz."

After the English Revolution—and an island’s experiment with republicanism—a genuine restoration was never in the cards.

Paid less than their white counterparts, Black men in the United States Colored Troops fought for the Union and the future of their families.

The significance of New Year’s Eve ‘watch night’ services for Black Americans.

A visual breakdown of the U.S. Senate by age.

At the very beginning of the auto industry, no less than three radically different design-for-maintenance philosophies fought it out.

The symbolic battles of World War I.

The iconic fusion of country and rock in Gram Parsons' legacy.

Before the Endangered Species Act, the federal government had actually encouraged the killing of certain species.

Looking at the development of cotton as a global commodity helps us understand how capitalism emerged.

Another way to look at controversial historical figures.

Ever since the 1969 Stonewall Riots, L.G.B.T.Q. communities have gathered there to express their joy, their anger, their pain and their power.

Can you run for president from a prison cell? One man did in the 1920 election and got almost a million votes.

"Ebony" strives to become a one-stop shop.

How college basketball coach Pat Summitt transformed women's sports.

A descendant of concentration camp survivors argues that using the right vocabulary can help clarify the stakes when confronting wartime trauma

On the complex history of “passing” in America.

Creating a personal myth allows celebrities to create just that—a myth.

'All men are created equal' coexisted with the understanding that not all were meant to be treated equally in life.

The Bonaventure Hotel was a battleground in the war between transnational real estate capital and the city’s multiracial working class.

Considering the suppressed legacy of Claude McKay’s two “lost” novels, “Amiable with Big Teeth” and “Romance in Marseille.”