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The holiday’s lack of history allowed activists to give it meaning after America’s divorce laws changed.

A century ago, cars killed pedestrians and cyclists in record numbers. As traffic deaths rise again, it’s time to remember how US cities once responded to this safety crisis.

Nearing an antiabortion victory five decades in the making.

Steve Kaslov sought to improve the civic status and rights of Romani people in the United States.

Thomas Jefferson was a proponent of open migration. But who qualified as a refugee?

Eavesdropping flourished after WWII, aided by legal loopholes, clever hacks, and “private ears”.

Amidst growing suspicion that equality talk is cheap, a new book explains where egalitarianism went wrong—and what it still has to offer.

For more than 150 years after it was coined, “terrorism” meant violence inflicted by the state on its people. How did the word come to mean the reverse?

A new book argues that the real estate industry’s campaign to defend housing segregation still echoes in today’s politics.

In 1905, the high court made a fateful ruling with eerie parallels to today: One person’s liberty can’t trump everyone else’s.

Tyler Stovall demonstrates ways that people have conflated freedom with whiteness but pays too little attention to the force of freedom as a concept.

Leading conservative pundits today are pounding themes that were popular among opponents of Reconstruction.

In the 19th century, freedom from government interference mapped onto opposition of women's rights.

John Marshall not only owned people; he owned many of them, and aggressively bought them when he could.

James M. Smith explains the last debates between Loyalists and Patriots prior to the official outbreak of the American Revolution.

American policy continues to create problems for Central American refugees.

Vaccination is of critical importance right now. History shows us that our problems are nothing new.

On the legal foundations that spurred centuries of civil rights movements.

Was this new age spurred by the ideals of the Enlightenment or by the imperatives of global warfare?

His defiance changed baseball and helped assert Black people’s worth in American culture.