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

At the prodding of John and Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren took on a massive project: writing a comprehensive history of the Revolutionary War.

A groundbreaking new book demonstrates that even during the days of slavery, African Americans knew a lot more about legal principles than has been imagined.

A new television miniseries depicts the pursuit of Lincoln’s killer. But the public appetite for tales about the chase began even as it was happening.

Remembering the river helps me forget, at least for a moment, the challenges, fears, and feelings of inadequacy I experienced in my childhood.

On the inseparable histories of matrimony and disunion in the United States.

Loft life above the Fulton Fish Market and the day that everything changed.

After "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," the nightmare of American familyhood was the only game in town.

Feminist. Preacher. Abolitionist. Civil rights pioneer. Now the full story of the American icon's life and faith is finally coming to light.

My ancestors were the good whites, or at least that’s what I’ve always wanted to believe.

Or, why families under siege make for great movies.

In the poetry of Jones Very, whom his contemporaries considered “eccentric” and “mad," the self is detached from everything by an intoxicated egoism.

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

Knowing I come from people who lived hard lives and endured terrible things is difficult. Knowing that I come from someone who ruined lives haunts me.

Cold War America resettled unaccompanied minors as an anti-communist imperative. Today, the nation forgets this history.

Some of my ancestors had money, and some held awful beliefs. I set out to investigate what I once stood to inherit.

A bold new photographic project asks modern-day Americans to recreate portraits of their 19th-century ancestors in painstakingly accurate fashion.

What the tech pioneer can, and can’t, teach us.

Women’s work is often hidden or marginal within historical records that were meant to show men’s economic and political lives.

Following the rhythm of Shirley Horn.