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Brea Baker on Black land ownership, historical injustice, and the hope for Black Americans to own more than one percent of the land.

Childhood trauma led Minty Ross (Harriet Tubman) to seek divine intervention.

How one activist helped turn evangelical women into the backbone of right-wing conservatism.

Chinese immigration and the Immigration Act of 1924.

Betty Ford and the public eye.

Tracing the family history of some of today's most popular celebrities.

Paul Cuffe was the first Black American to formally meet with a sitting president at the White House.

How we rediscovered the tragedy in Mississippi that ushered us into the Great Migration.

A century after three Tejano men were shot to death, the story their family tells is different than the official account. Whose story counts as Texas history?

What a little-known family reveals about the nation’s untamed spirit.

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

At the Habsburg Convention in Plano.

Gordon Parks’s most famous photograph, "American Gothic," was of a cleaning woman in Washington, D.C. She has a story to tell.

As the first Native American Cabinet member, the Secretary of the Interior has made it part of her job to address the travesties of the past.

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.