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The belief of first-generation Japanese immigrants in their racial superiority over Filipinos was a by-product of the San Joaquin Delta's white hegemony.

The peach industry represented a new, scientifically driven economy for Georgia, but it also depended on the rhythms and racial stereotypes of cotton farming.

How the focus on Harlem obfuscated Black culture in the Midwest.

By focusing on the Black working class and its long history, Blair LM Kelley’s book, "Black Folk," helps tell the larger story of American democracy.

Why conservatives killed America’s federally funded theater.

Recovering a life in fragments, Arthur Bowler in slavery and freedom.

On the construction of America's new capital city.

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

A new book explores the Communist Party's western base and its alliance with the labor movement.

A century ago, debates about the failed Child Labor Amendment turned on larger issues about work, childhood, and the role of government.

"The Reckoning," Robin Blackburn’s monumental history, offers a dizzying account of the politics behind slavery's rise and fall.

Why are buildings today simple and austere, while buildings of the past were ornate and elaborately ornamented? The answer is not the cost of labor.

State-level rollbacks to child labor protections show the need for a constitutional amendment introduced 100 years ago.

Professional nurses who moved north during the Great Migration worked in New York City’s most contagious sanatorium — and changed the course of public health.

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

On the continuing regime of racial terror in the post-Civil War American South.

By looking at the labor history of academia, you can see the roots of a crisis in higher education that has been decades in the making.

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

In the American South, an oligarchy of planters enriched itself through slavery. Pervasive underdevelopment is their legacy.

Film and television writers face an existential threat.