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Students demonstrating against the Shah of Iran, Washington, DC, 1979.

Indifferent to the Fate of Freedom Elsewhere

Jimmy Carter is known for his defense of human rights worldwide. But in 1979, he threatened to deport thousands of Iranian student protesters.

by Will Teague via HNN on March 11, 2025

How the Red Scare Reshaped American Politics

At its height, the political crackdown felt terrifying and all-encompassing. What can we learn from how the movement unfolded—and from how it came to an end?

by Beverly Gage via The New Yorker on March 10, 2025

A line of women athletes linking arms and wearing shirts with a passage from Title Nine on the back.

Women's Sports Happened By Accident, And Could Be Taken Apart On Purpose

The long battle against Title IX.

by Diana Moskovitz via Defector on March 6, 2025

Supreme court passing from the robing room to the court chambers, 1881.

Lacking a Demonstrable Source of Authority

On the case that provoked the courts to decide if the federal government had jurisdiction to exercise American criminal law over Native peoples on Native lands.

by Keith Richotte Jr. via HNN on February 19, 2025

Woman in a hospital bed reading a pamphlet called "After the Abortion."

Her “Health and Thus Her Life”

Abortion exceptions in legal history.

by Alicia Gutierrez-Romine via Perspectives on History on January 29, 2025

Newborn babies sleeping in a maternity ward.

The Coming Assault on Birthright Citizenship

The Constitution is absolutely clear on this point, but will that matter?

by Amanda Frost via The Atlantic on January 7, 2025

Nancy Pelosi standing next to a sign that says "Protecting America's Health Care."

UnitedHealthcare’s Decades-Long Fight to Block Reform

UnitedHealthcare, the health insurer whose CEO was murdered, has spent decades fighting and winning political battles to maintain the for-profit health system.

by Branko Marcetic via Jacobin on December 21, 2024

College students studying in a campus lounge.

What the New Right Learned in School

Many of today's most influential right-wing tactics and arguments have their roots in 1960s-era college campuses.

by Emily M. Brooks via Contingent on November 17, 2024

Congress’s Power to Investigate Crime Is More Important Than Ever

A new historical study finds that Congress’s authority to investigate crime is “indispensable” to the system of checks and balances.

by Dave Rapallo via Lawfare on November 1, 2024

Fred Grey photographed in front of a book shelf of law books.

The History of Segregation Scholarships

A narrative not of brain drain but of Black aspiration.

by Crystal R. Sanders via HNN on October 15, 2024

A computer, business documents, envelope, and a broadcast tower.

How Tech Giants Make History

AT&T’s early leaders used PR to sway public opinion, casting their monopoly as a public service and obscuring its political roots.

by Richard R. John via Pro-Market on October 10, 2024

A monkey listening to a radio with headphones.

The Scopes Trial and the Two Visions of US Democracy

A new history revisits “the Trial of the Century” and its legacy in contemporary politics.

by Michael Kazin via The Nation on September 30, 2024

Washington crossing the Delaware painting by Emmanuel Leutze.

What Freedom Meant to the Black Soldier Who Rowed Across the Delaware

The enslaved Prince Whipple acutely felt the contradiction between American ideals and his condition.

by Timothy Messer-Kruse via Commonplace on August 6, 2024

A judge's gavel and the Capitol building, edited to look like the top of the Capitol is the other side of the gavel.

America Has Too Many Laws

An excess of restrictions has taken a very real toll on the lives of everyday Americans. Their stories must be told.

by Neil Gorsuch, Janie Nitze via The Atlantic on August 5, 2024

Jason Epstein.

The Man Who Created the Trade Paperback

On the life and times of Jason Epstein, cofounder of “The New York Review of Books.”

by Michael Castleman via Literary Hub on July 18, 2024

White men strapping a Black man into an electric chair.

Matters of Life and Death

Systemic racism and capital punishment have long been intertwined in Virginia, the South, and the nation.

by Janis Parker on July 10, 2024

Supreme Court building.

Supreme Court Opinions Don't Have to Be the Final Word

The Supreme Court doesn't have the last word; the people do. How attorneys pushed back on the flawed 1987 McCleskey decision.

by Robert L. Tsai via Made By History on June 28, 2024

Demonstrators outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on April 24, 2024.

How Doctors Came to Play a Key Role in the Abortion Debate

While the phrase "between a woman and her doctor" has been used to protect abortion access, it also reflects physicians' outsized power.

by Emma Peterson, Daniel Martinez Hosang via Made By History on June 20, 2024

Black student looking up at a school bus full of white children.

The Boston ‘Busing Crisis’ Was Never About Busing

Five decades after the desegregation effort, a civil-rights scholar questions its framing.

by Jeanne Theoharis via The Emancipator on June 19, 2024

A Walmart building.

War in the Aisles

Monopolies across the grocery supply chain squeeze consumers and small-business owners alike. Big Data will only entrench those dynamics further.

by Jarod Facundo via The American Prospect on June 12, 2024

A gavel smashing a wooden house.

The Constitutional Case Against Exclusionary Zoning

America is suffering from a severe housing shortage. A crucial tool may lie in the Constitution.

by Ilya Somin, Joshua Braver via The Atlantic on June 12, 2024

Plastic kitchen containers in red liquid.

How 3M Discovered, Then Concealed, the Dangers of Forever Chemicals

The company found its own toxic compounds in human blood—and kept selling them.

by Sharon Lerner via The New Yorker on May 20, 2024

Deb Haaland.

Deb Haaland Confronts the History of the Federal Agency She Leads

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.

by Casey N. Cep via The New Yorker on April 29, 2024

American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, Hartford, Connecticut.

What Was Psychiatric Deinstitutionalization?

An interview with sociologist and historian of psychiatry Andrew Scull about the history and legacy of psychiatric deinstitutionalization.

by Andrew Scull via Damage on April 22, 2024

The Civic Arena that hosted basketball teams from 1961-1972.

Pittsburgh Was Briefly a Basketball Town. Could It Happen Again?

Connie Hawkins overcame scandal and setbacks to star for the Pittsburgh Pipers, leading them to an ABA title, paving the way for NBA reforms.

by Jonathan Burdick via Pittsburgh City Paper on April 1, 2024

What Centuries of Common Law Can Teach Us About Regulating Social Media

Today, tech platforms, including social media, are the new common carriers.

by Ganesh Sitaraman, Morgan Ricks via LPE Project on February 26, 2024

Photo of a blue bin filled with recyclable garbage.

Petrochemical Companies Have Known for 40 Years that Plastics Recycling Wouldn't Work

Despite knowing that plastic recycling wouldn't work, new documents show how petrochemical companies promoted it anyway.

by Joseph Winters via Grist on February 20, 2024

Antonin Scalia speaking at a Federalist Society event.

How the Federalist Society Conquered the American Legal System

How the Federalist Society became the engine of the conservative legal movement—and where it might be headed next.

by Peter Shamshiri, Rhiannon Hamam, Michael Liroff, Amanda Hollis-Brusky via Balls And Strikes on February 13, 2024

Why the Long Shadow of Bush v. Gore Looms Over the Supreme Court’s Colorado Case

In the fight over keeping Trump’s name on the ballot, the 2000 decision is a warning but not a precedent.

by E. Tammy Kim via The New Yorker on February 7, 2024

Black students from Alabama State College stage a mass rally on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol in 1960.

What’s Behind the Fight Over Whether Nonprofits Can Be Forced to Disclose Donors’ Names

A reminder of how tricky it is to balance protecting transparency and freedom of association.

by Helen J. Knowles-Gardner via Made By History on January 16, 2024

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