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Americans Shouldn’t Have to Drive, but the Law Insists on It
The automobile took over because the legal system helped squeeze out the alternatives.
by
Gregory H. Shill
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The Atlantic
on
July 9, 2019
An Oral History of Trump’s Bigotry
His racism and intolerance have always been in evidence; only slowly did he begin to understand how to use them to his advantage.
by
David A. Graham
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Parker Richards
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Adrienne Green
,
Cullen Murphy
via
The Atlantic
on
May 13, 2019
Uncovering the Truth About a Raid on the Black Panthers
How a team of lawyers exposed lies about police violence.
by
Flint Taylor
via
Literary Hub
on
February 25, 2019
Who Were the Pinkertons?
A video game portrays the Wild West’s famous detective agency as violent enforcers of order. But the modern-day company disagrees.
by
Rebecca Onion
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Slate
on
February 1, 2019
How Flight Attendants Organized Against Their Bosses to End Stereotyping
The marketing of stewardesses’ bodies was long an integral part of airline marketing strategies.
by
Gillian Frank
,
Lauren Gutterman
via
Jezebel
on
November 29, 2018
Ancestry.com Is In Cahoots With Public Records Agencies, A Group Suspects
A nonprofit claims its request for genealogical records from state archives was brushed aside in favor of Ancestry’s request.
by
Katie Notopoulos
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BuzzFeed News
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October 22, 2018
‘Crush Them’: An Oral History of the Lawsuit That Upended Silicon Valley
Twenty years ago, Microsoft tried to eliminate its competition in the race for the internet's future. The government had other ideas.
by
Victor Luckerson
via
The Ringer
on
May 18, 2018
Josef K. in Washington
A review of "Closing the Courthouse Door: How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable" by Erwin Chemerinsky.
by
David Luban
via
New York Review of Books
on
March 2, 2018
Children and Childhood
How changing gender norms and conceptions of childhood shaped modern child custody laws.
by
Michael Grossberg
via
Child Custody Project
on
October 31, 2017
My Journey to the Heart of the FOIA Request
How a simple request became a bureaucratic nightmare.
by
Spenser Mestel
via
Longreads
on
September 20, 2017
The Supreme Court’s Quiet Assault on Civil Rights
The Supreme Court is quietly gutting one of the United States’ most important civil rights statutes.
by
Lynn Adelman
via
Dissent
on
September 1, 2017
Fighting the Klan in Reagan’s America
The KKK was on the march in the 1980s. What strategies worked to stem their rise?
by
Branko Marcetic
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Jacobin
on
August 25, 2017
Eavesdropping on Roy Cohn and Donald Trump
Remembering the switchboard operator who listened in on Cohn’s calls with Nancy Reagan, Gloria Vanderbilt, Carlo Gambino, and Trump.
by
Marcus Baram
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The New Yorker
on
April 14, 2017
The True Story of the Louisiana Purchase Is One of Plunder of Native American Lands
The U.S. didn't buy a huge tract of land from France. It bought the right to displace Native Americans from that land.
by
Robert Lee
via
Slate
on
March 1, 2017
Claudette Colvin: 'A Teenage Rosa Parks'
What makes a hero? Why do we remember some stories and not others?
by
Radio Diaries
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Radio Diaries
on
March 2, 2016
The Divorce Colony
The strange tale of the socialites who shaped modern marriage on the American frontier.
by
April White
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The Atavist
on
December 8, 2015
The Thirteenth Amendment and a Reparations Program
The amendment, which brought an end to slavery in the U.S., could be used to begin a national debate on reparations.
by
Ramsin Canon
via
U.S. Intellectual History Blog
on
July 12, 2014
Remarkable Radical: Thaddeus Stevens
Thaddeus Stevens was a fearsome reformer who never backed down from a fight.
by
Steve Moyer
via
Humanities
on
November 1, 2012
Searching for Robert Johnson
In the seven decades since his mysterious death, bluesman Robert Johnson’s legend has grown.
by
Frank DiGiacomo
via
Vanity Fair
on
October 1, 2008
partner
Bones of Dispute
Who owns the past? That is the subject of debate after the discovery of a human skeleton on the banks of the Columbia River in Kennewick, Washington.
by
MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour
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American Archive of Public Broadcasting
on
January 3, 1997
Teaching the Holocaust Just Got Harder in Mississippi
A new state law forbids education increasing ‘awareness’ of issues relating to race. How are educators supposed to teach history?
by
Margaret McMullan
via
The Bulwark
on
June 24, 2025
Pierce at 100
A century ago, the Court recognized the essential right of parents to direct the education of their children.
by
Mark David Hall
,
Ernie Walton
via
Law & Liberty
on
May 30, 2025
partner
Who Controls the Purse? Presidential Power and the Fight Over Spending
Trump is reviving a controversial budget tactic, putting a Nixon-era fight over presidential power and congressional authority back in the headlines.
by
Sarah Weiser
via
Retro Report
on
May 23, 2025
Who Gets to Be an American?
Since the earliest days of the Republic, American citizenship has been contested, subject to the anti-democratic impulses of racism, suspicion, and paranoia.
by
Michael Luo
via
The New Yorker
on
May 20, 2025
Surviving Bad Presidents
What the Constitution asks of us.
by
George Thomas
via
The Bulwark
on
May 16, 2025
DOJ Shakeup May Put Civil Rights Probe of 1970 Jackson State, Mississippi, Killings At Risk
The Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Act made way for investigations of racially motivated killings. The federal agency enforcing it is in disarray.
by
Daja E. Henry
via
The Marshall Project
on
May 14, 2025
How Brown Came North and Failed
Half a century ago the civil rights movement’s effort to carry the campaign for school desegregation from the South to the urban North ended in failure.
by
Linda Greenhouse
via
New York Review of Books
on
May 8, 2025
Before Mahmoud Khalil, There Was Harry Bridges
The U.S. government repeatedly tried to deport the midcentury labor leader over his alleged ties to the Communist Party.
by
Clay Risen
via
The Bulwark
on
March 24, 2025
How Delayed Desegregation Deprived Black Children of Their Right to Education
On the ongoing battle to desegregate schools across America throughout the 1960s.
by
Noliwe Rooks
via
Literary Hub
on
March 19, 2025
No, Native American Citizenship Does Not Support Limits on Birthright Citizenship
This defense misconstrues both the Constitution and the Supreme Court decisions relying on it.
by
Bethany Berger
via
Lawfare
on
March 12, 2025
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