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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.

"It's the story of a family who had been denied justice about a piece of land they owned for at least 160 years."

How Black support for Zionism morphed into support for Palestine.

On the white Christian legacy of J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI.

The archives of the historically Black Tuskegee University recently released recordings from 1957 to 1971, with a number by powerful civil rights leaders.

15th century dogma connects the genocide and land dispossession of Native Americans with the enslavement and oppression of African Americans throughout history.

A conversation about "the gains and pains of America’s exercise obsession."

Robert D. Bullard reflects on the movement he helped to create.

A new book exposes effects of anti-Black myth-making and calls for an end to the family policing system.

The famed opera has been criticized for its racist portrayals of Asian-Americans.

A conversation about the Cold War’s profound and negative influence on the liberal worldview.

How white-dominated racial power produces inter-ethnic group conflict.

Leaders of the political right learned lessons from the 1960s that still inform the movement today.

The welfare rights movement of the 1960s and ’70s resisted invasive policies. Their animating vision: that society treat every mother and child with dignity.

What it means to be a Black worker in the time since slavery.

How documenting the history of the drug war is a “community project” and reflections on 1990s rap music's anti-crack hits.

Watching 'Oppenheimer' with the author of a definitive account of the Manhattan Project.

Jim Crow terror, within and outside the law.

A-bomb architect “was no Einstein,” historian says, but he did Nobel-level work on black holes.

The esteemed labor historian reflects on his life and career, including Berkeley in the 1960s, Walter Reuther, the early UAW, Walmart, Bill Clinton, and more.

The internet has expanded how we understand the possibilities of the trans experience.

Uncovering a tradition of African American radicalism that was—and is—a crucial part of the American left’s history.

The long-term impact of Quarles’s work.

Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton lived an unapologetic life that transcended genres and gender norms beyond her bluesy hit song and the “Elvis moment.”

A conversation with Colin Kaepernick on Black studies, white supremacy, and capitalism.

We should interrogate nostalgia’s primacy without advocating for its eradication.

"Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks – A Cool History of a Hot Commodity" reveals the history of frozen water and its impact on American life and culture.

What happened after the destruction of Greenwood, once home to some of the wealthiest African Americans in the US.

Botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter braved rapids and steep cliffs to catalog numerous plant species.

A new biography of King emerges at a "critical juncture" for his legacy.

In 1967, Milton Friedman launched a counterrevolution in economics that overturned the Keynesian theory of inflation.

Jackie Robinson is popularly portrayed as the man who broke baseball’s color line by quietly enduring racist abuse. But that narrative is much too narrow.

Coming to terms with Boston’s racist legacy in “Small Mercies."