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America’s only successful insurrection.

After Japan's surrender, U.S. troops rebelled against a plan to keep them overseas, staging dramatic protests from the Philippines to Guam.

Congress's role in shaping policies like the Affordable Care Act and exonerating Port Chicago sailors is often overlooked, overshadowed by the president.

A minor incident gets distorted in order to provide a desired racial story.

After the deadliest home-front disaster of the war, African Americans throughout the military took action to transform the nation's armed forces.

In 1838, as the U.S. began its Exploring Expedition to the South Seas, Edgar Allan Poe published a novel that masqueraded as a travelogue.

Several recent books offer a more complete, bottom-up picture of the role sailors and Black political actors played in making the Atlantic world.

When the going gets tough, the tough start something better.

Outrage over the revolt spurred the U.S. to deliver on a promise of the revolution.

In 1803 one of the largest mass suicides of enslaved people took place when Igbo captives from what is now Nigeria were taken to the Georgia coast.

What the 1971 uprising and massacre reveal about our prison system and the liberal democratic state.

The author's half-forgotten masterpiece, Benito Cereno, provides fascinating insight into issues of slavery, freedom, individualism—and Islamophobia.

Why does the power to launch nuclear weapons rest with a single American?

Vincent Conlon’s secret life in the United States as an operative and gun-running Irish rebel.

A relic of WWI that helped destroy the anti-war left, it remains a threat to news outlets, political organizers, and challengers of the surveillance state.

A conversation with historian Marcus Rediker about multiracial mobs, history from below and the memory of struggle.

If you think the First World War began senselessly, consider how it ended.