Excerpts

Scientists and lawmakers in the 70s knew more than we think they did about climate change and the impacts of fossil fuel regulations.

The author of "Cahokia Jazz" reflects on the similarities between historical fiction and science fiction, and the imaginative space opened by archival silences.

The Democratic Party, and the US political system as a whole, is a very strange beast.

An animation historian on Reddy Kilowatt, the cartoon charged with electrifying everything in the early 20th century.

1934 world champion runner Zdenek Koubek, boxer Imane Khelif, and how far we haven’t come on gender in sports.

A new book takes on a diagnosis invented to cover up police killings: that men of color are “combusting as a result of their aggressiveness.”

Deindustrialization has helped create a right-wing turn in many Midwestern towns. Long traditions of labor militancy can explain why it hasn’t in others.

A new book explores the history of presidents who abused their constitutional power and the citizen movements that stopped them.

“Night Flyer” expands Harriet Tubman’s legacy to include her family, community and “eco-spiritual worldview.”

Tracing financial capital—from J. P. Morgan to BlackRock.

John Ganz’s “When the Clock Broke” renders the signal political battles of the present in an entirely new light.

In the early nineties, the country turned against the establishment and right-wing populists thrived. A new history reassesses their impact.

A new graphic book unpacks the role that some White women played in suppressing voting rights for all — and the lessons today in the fight for universal ballot access.

“The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports” upends long-held assumptions about trans people’s participation in sports.

“An Ideal for Living” explores the fascinating backstory of a mini music format.

A conversation with the legal scholar on why it is unusual that the Constitution is core to American national identity.

What we can learn from the history of maritime folk music.

An interview with Taylor Brown, author of the novel "Rednecks."

On how the fringe ideas of a set of American neoliberals became a new and pervasive way of life.

On revisiting the anti-imperialism of the 1960s and ’70s amid the return of left internationalism.

The history of the property tax system and its structural defects that have led to widespread discrimination against Black Americans.

A conversation with the activists and writers about their wide-ranging history of the politics of the common good and togetherness.

An interview with sociologist and historian of psychiatry Andrew Scull about the history and legacy of psychiatric deinstitutionalization.

"I was always working on a theory of America."

Historian Robin Blackburn has completed a trilogy of books that provide a comprehensive Marxist account of slavery in the New World.

From the 1880s to the 1940s, New York City was transformed—and so too was the New York City Police Department.

A conversation with John David Waiheʻe III, former Governor of Hawai‘i, on the U.S. apology to the Hawaiian people.

Luis Valdez on his friendship with Cesar Chavez, his works in the National Film Registry, and a lifetime of activism.

An intellectual history of inequality in economic theory reveals the ideological reasons behind the field’s resurgence in the last few decades.

Amrita Myers paints freedom as a process in which Black women used the tools available to them to secure rights and privileges within a slave society.

Marronage as a placemaking practice, pointing to histories that shape and inspire abolitionist struggles.

Age of Revolutions was happy to interview Nathan Perl-Rosenthal about his new book, entitled 'The Age of Revolutions and the Generations Who Made It.'

The turbulent history of an often forgotten moment that would leave blood in the streets and shape the modern landscape of Chicago.

Historians Rosemarie Zagarri and Holly Brewer explain the anti-monarchical origins of the Constitution and the presidency.

How the Federalist Society became the engine of the conservative legal movement—and where it might be headed next.

A conversation with Erika Marie Bsumek about one of the worst boondoggles in the Southwest.

According to Geoffrey Levin’s ‘Our Palestine Question,’ divides over Israeli policy aren’t new – they existed before American Jews fully embraced Zionism.

An interview with Jennifer Burns on her authoritative new biography of the American economist and the personal and intellectual origins of his theories.

A new book gets inside Guatemala’s international adoption industry and the complicated context of deciding a child’s welfare.

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

In March 1911, the segregated Crownsville asylum opened outside Baltimore, Maryland, admitting only Black patients.

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

As director of the FBI for decades, J. Edgar Hoover helped build a massive, professionalized national security state and hounded leftists out of public life.

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.

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

The strange and contradicting development of the liberal version of egalitarianism.

On the 14th amendment – and if it might stop Trump.

A discussion on the difficulty of keeping faith in a foundationally anti-Black republic.

Disappearing foods – and why they need protecting.

A conversation with the longtime director about “Rustin,” growing up in Kentucky, and putting on a show.