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The turbulent late sixties saw the technique’s popularity explode—and it’s been helping moviemakers engage with the unsettling tempos of modern life ever since.

History’s academic study is now deeply politicized, with partisan views shaping beliefs and debates over even basic historical facts.

Why does the power to launch nuclear weapons rest with a single American?

The Native activist spent nearly fifty years in prison for the killing of two F.B.I. agents. In January, Joe Biden commuted his sentence, and he went home.

How FDR invented national security, and why Democrats need to move on from it.

Eve Adams was imprisoned for disorderly conduct and obscenity, then sent back to Europe, where she became a target of the Holocaust.

1988 was a pivotal year in how “white liberals” are perceived by their fellow Americans.

June 25 marks the 75th anniversary of the start of the Korean War. But the truth is that the US was a willing partner in mass murder across the peninsula.

In Skrmetti, the Court turned to a decades-old decision once thought to be consigned to history.

A group of early 20th-century Catholics sought to impose their standards of morality onto the growing and scandal-ridden Hollywood film industry.

The progress we have seen toward civil rights for all Americans is inseparable from the history of classical liberalism.

A new state law forbids education increasing ‘awareness’ of issues relating to race. How are educators supposed to teach history?

Shahn was an American phenomenon, but a new retrospective suggests that we’ve come to prize his politics over his accomplishments.

In June 2016, President Obama proclaimed the first LGBTQ+ national monument in the United States at the site of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in New York City.

How did the concept become the solution to society’s most deeply entrenched problems?

Israel is attacking Iran’s nuclear sites, but Tehran’s secret path was blazed by the Israelis.

How did freedom become synonymous with having lots of options?

Advocates of “military Keynesianism” present it as a boon for the working class. In reality, it diverts resources away from social provision.

A teacher tells the story of 1974’s Olean, New York High School murders.

St Louis organizer Bill Sentner led some of the most successful labor battles in Midwestern history by uniting workers across race and gender lines.

The past really is a foreign country, as historian Jonathan Ablard finds when piecing together the turbulent history of his ancestors in the West and Midwest.

In the 1960s, amid the shipping industry's decline, the empty piers became a site for cruising and creativity for gay men in particular.

A historian reviews new books by Peter Beinart, Avi Shlaim and Pankaj Mishra on the project that animates Israel’s violence.

The Interstate Highway System created a national polity defined by circulation. To rethink the Interstates is to rethink the United States.

This Juneteenth we need to discard the caricatures of King that we so often see and learn from what he actually did and believed.

Texas might have been a place to start a conversation about widening the scope of civil liberties, but it has also been a place where those liberties end.

We live in polarized times when freedom is threatened but this Juneteenth we should remind ourselves that we have overcome far worse.

We cannot divorce the independence of the executive branch from its substance.

When Jim Obergefell and his partner John Arthur decided to marry after more than 20 years together, their home state refused to recognize same-sex marriages.

Domestic deployments have generally been quite restrained. Can they still be?

Ten years after the Charleston massacre, reverence for the Confederacy that Roof idolized is going strong.

Even some liberals toasted William F. Buckley Jr. as a patrician gentleman. A long-awaited new biography corrects that record.

The nation’s founding document, the Declaration of Independence, depicts a wounded, fearful society, teetering on the brink of disaster. Sound familiar?

Undermining international oceans governance could damage American interests.

McKinley led a country defined by tariffs and colonial wars. Trump is drawn to his legacy—and determined to bring the liberal international order to an end.

How an Ovid-quoting London broadsheet from the late seventeenth century spawned “Dear Abby,” Dan Savage, and Reddit’s Am I the Asshole.

The commander-in-chief initially barred black soldiers from joining the ranks, but he came to understand the value—both moral and strategic—of a diverse force.

Survivors of the nuclear blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki are still fighting for recognition.

Thomas Jefferson's limited government ideal quickly conflicted with the U.S. Constitution and the dominant Federalist Party, prompting a radical proposal.

The sad remnants of a soldier’s life revealed through probate and Ancestry offer a moving glimpse into the afterlife of Civil War service.

Fifty years on, "The Monkey Wrench Gang" remains a problematic text for environmental activists, who are inclined to endorse its violent tendencies.

From Revolutionary War-era recluses to 1920s roadside attractions, meet the solitary figures who turned isolation into a destination.

What looks like an excess of strength may really be a deficit of liberty.

Expanding the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit could make a successful program even better—and address a major crisis.

A look at popular interpretations and actual labor fluctuations in the Rust Belt over time.

A history of wealth, enterprise, and family dysfunction.

Trump's crackdown on immigrants bears alarming parallels to the fugitive slave obsessions of the pre-Civil War South.

The announcement comes just four days before the Army’s multimillion dollar parade in Washington.

Calls to defund the Marxist left and similar mobilizations against rumors of a new red dawn are nothing new.

Birthright citizenship is distinctly American—but not in the way Trump thinks.