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What can a visualization of population growth in cities and towns in the Northeast tell us about different moments in the region's economic geography?

Despite captivating the nation with their athleticism every March, collegiate basktball players remain an exploited labor force for the profit of the NCAA.

The John Birch Society pushed a darker, more conspiratorial politics in the ’50s and ’60s — and looms large over today’s GOP.

A new book argues that the real history of the league is one of strife between Black labor and white ownership.

The relentless radicalism of Benjamin Lay.

The second wife of Thomas Edison, she viewed domestic labor as a science, calling herself a "home executive."

The decline of the John Birch Society offers possible strategies for containing the MAGA movement.

The story of Morris Slater, aka Railroad Bill, prompts us to ask how the legend of the "American outlaw" changes when race is involved.

By mass-marketing social aspiration, the brand toed the line between exclusivity and accessibility—and established prep as America’s visual vernacular.

In Eatonville, one of the few Black towns to have survived incorporation, locals are fighting to preserve 100 acres of land from being sold to developers.

The flawed logic that produced the war is alive and well.

Remembering what the Iraq War was like, 20 years later.

Twenty years later, I am living through the making of the Iraq War as history.

Signed February 2, 1848, the treaty compelled Mexico to cede 55 percent of its territory, bringing more than 525,000 square miles under US sovereignty.

Two former CIA officials weigh in: "It's time to call him what he is: 'A liar.'"

Police champions have long wielded new technology as a tool to project authority and legitimacy, while deflecting criticism.

Mushroom clouds, duct tape, Judy Miller, Curveball. Recalling how Americans were sold a bogus case for invasion.

A new history examines Silicon Valley, Palo Alto, the West Coast's settler ideology, and recent turbulence in the world of tech.

It was 1872 and the commander-in-chief kept riding his horse too fast through the streets of Washington.

Émile Coué, a French apothecary, started an “autosuggestion” craze that was the biggest thing in America in the early 1920s, practiced by millions every day.

So where were those angsty kids?

What the political fight over a photo teaches us about the power of art, grassroots activism and images.

How the mythologizing of the Union Army’s Irish Brigade helped dispel anti-Irish sentiment.

The frightening character who appears amid US union disputes can be traced back to a single factory, which wasn’t unionized.

In the 1970s, a family farm movement famously mobilized in “tractorcades” at the Capitol to try to prevent farm foreclosures and keep farmers on the land.

The Los Angeles Times will no longer use "internment" to describe the mass incarceration of 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry during World War II.

The rise and fall and rise of the traditional St. Patrick's Day meal.

Scholars agree the song, endowed with its deep history of Black pride, speaks to the universal human condition.

If studios can again harness the income from exhibition, we may see a return of traditional vertical integration.

In "The Car," Bryan Appleyard sets out to celebrate the freedom these vehicles granted. But what if they were a dangerous technology from the start?

As environmental rights seem on the verge of a comeback, it’s worth remembering why they once seemed so promising, and why that promise remains unfulfilled.

Nearly 20 years after their deployment to Iraq, veterans grapple with their younger selves and try to make sense of the war.

The same ideas that have harmed D.C. for more than a century are again rearing their ugly head.

A Spanish-language pamphlet by Cotton Mather explodes the Black-versus-white binary that dominates most discussions of race in our time.

Conjugal visits were first allowed as incentives for the forced labor of incarcerated Black men, the practice expanding from there. Is human touch a right?

Archival records of Black southerners' military desertion tribunals can be read as a distinct form of political action.

The new program might strengthen personal connections to refugees, but history shows there are potential downsides, as well.

The unlikely, true story of the Westinghouse “We Can Do It” work-incentive poster that became an international emblem of women’s empowerment.

The Globetrotters have always been far more than just a comic exhibition team, just as sports have always meant much more than escapism.

Seeing through empathy with Diane Arbus.

The man who changed America.

Three recent books examine the discrimination and hypocrisy at the heart of policing “vice.”

A new book about the first lady reveals how she and the ailing President Woodrow Wilson silenced their critics.

How should historians respond to the urgency of this current political moment?

All coed camps can be like this. But Jewish ones were different.

Carter’s work in Zimbabwe forms a significant and underappreciated part of his legacy.

Kelly Lytle Hernández’s new book chronicles the tumultuous period leading up to the Mexican Revolution, casting the border as ground zero for continental change.

How a celebrated corporate lawyer named Elihu Root became the driving force behind some of the worst U.S. atrocities ever perpetrated abroad.

The Black Woman’s Organizing Archive highlights work in the 19th and 20th centuries that benefitted Black women and American society as a whole.

Greene probably has visions of suburban Atlanta in the 1990s and 2000s, not the Civil War.