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Christine Blasey Ford’s memoir captures the hazards of “coming forward.”

How a clerk on Ellis Island at the dawn of the 20th century documented discrimination through photography, and what that tells us about today’s malaise.

President Woodrow Wilson presided over the segregation of government workers, putting Black people behind screens and in cages in 1913.

What happened to privacy when Americans gained easy access to cameras in the Gilded Age?

Oppenheimer and the demon heart of power.

Characterised today by the noise of banging, buzzers, and the cries of inmates, solitary confinement was originally developed from Quaker ideas.

A 40-year saga of kickbacks, threats, political maneuvering, and the humiliation of Pearl Jam.

The concept of geopolitics comes from German and Russian attempts to explain defeat and reverse loss of influence.

In the course of research about the Red Summer of 1919, a historian in Maine uncovers a disturbing event that took place on her own campus.

American revolutionaries had a far wider range of reasons for supporting rebellion than we often assume.

Routine arrests were the linchpin of a social system intended to humiliate LGBTQ people.

Unfair maneuver or a strong warning to would-be criminals?

How mail-order catalogues subverted the racial hierarchy of Jim Crow.

King George's tax collectors abused police powers to fill his coffers. Sound familiar?

ICE officers are wearing masks to conceal their identities. The Ku Klux Klan also employed masks to avoid prosecution for its acts of racial violence.

How the Sons of Liberty became colonial power-brokers.

The Black Panthers shook America before the party was gutted by the government. Their children paid a steep price, but also emerged with unassailable pride.

A Black transgender woman’s testimony helped ratify the 14th Amendment. Then conservatives began attacking her identity.

In the aftermath of the American Revolution, southern slaveholders were thinking about what a prison should look like for a society that was economically and socially dependent on slavery.

Rap beef is form of capitalist accumulation that enriches artists—and, most of all, the corporate suits that run their record labels.

Publishing needs his democratic spirit.

Finding a story in the ways Robert Ray Hamilton, John Dudley Sargent, and Edith Sargent weren’t quite forgotten. 

‘The Achilles Trap’ reexamines the relationship between Hussein and four U.S. administrations.

“This isn’t about being for one group or against another. It’s about basic human rights.”

Yelling about schools gets people riled up. The outcome can be unpredictable.

A new book revisits Freud’s analysis of Woodrow Wilson to ask: how much do leaders’ psychologies shape our politics?

Over the course of her 83 years, the megawatt star that was Tina Turner kept telling us who she was in the hopes that we would see her — all of her.

The Los Angeles Times will no longer use "internment" to describe the mass incarceration of 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry during World War II.

During World War II, almost a half million POWs were interned in the United States, where they forged sympathetic relationships with Black American soldiers.

Interrogated, examined, blackmailed: how law enforcement treated abortion-seeking women before Roe.