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Jails have been foundational to immigration enforcement for over a century—and have always operated with a staggering absence of oversight and public awareness.

Why Netflix looks like that.

The decline of Southern industries paved the way for plantations in Fiji and Australia, where victims of “blackbirding” endured horrific working conditions.

Amazon will never be neighbourly.

Why “Let’s have public schools like the Founding Fathers had” is such a terrible idea.

In "Counterrevolution," Melinda Cooper reads the 1970s economic crisis as an elite revolt rather than proof of the New Deal order’s unsustainability.

The tariffs he keeps babbling about didn’t make that decade great. They helped usher in a depression.

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

As women stretch themselves thin, homesteader influencers sell them an image of containment.

William Bradford Huie’s newly released research notes show he suspected more than two men tortured and killed Emmett Till, but suggest that he left it out.

Wayfinding through history and design of the cookbook.

A prison is a difficult thing to kill.

Caught between steel mills, suburbs and a hard place, the 15,000-acre site is a fantasia of biodiversity—and a case study for hard-fought conservation.

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

70 years since President Árbenz was ousted for standing up to Chiquita, the firm might finally be held to account for its ties to a far-right paramilitary group in Colombia.

Charting the history of a TV phenomenon.

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

Neoliberalism isn’t just a set of economic precepts—it’s also an architecture of laws passed to reinforce those precepts. Those laws must be changed.

Corporations sold Americans on the chasing arrows — while stripping the logo of its worth.

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.

In a new book, Robert KD Colby of the University of Mississippi shows how the Confederacy remained committed to slavery.

Americans have always borrowed, but how exactly did their lives become so entangled with the power of plastic cards?

Earth First! was founded in 1980 to defend wildlife and wilderness areas more directly and uncompromisingly than most environmental groups.

The history of the battle to keep Title IX out of college sports.

Autopsies of a changing publishing industry; frustrations with readers' tastes; and sympathies for poets and authors drawn to commercially hopeless genres.

Can histories of economic crisis provide us with useful lessons?

The venerable movie studio once defined the industry's zeal for consolidation, pioneering vertical integration and serving as the model for its major rivals.

The recent history of copyright in music cannot be separated from the rise of technologies for the recording and transmission of content online.

Extractive industries filling public university coffers on stolen land. Here's how 14 land-grant colleges took 8.2 million acres from 123 Indigenous nations.

Without smart regulation, price competition turns into a race to the bottom.