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In the 1800s, they helped lay the groundwork for the anti-vaccine movement.

A review of Robert Elder's new biography of John C. Calhoun.

How not to learn about the American past.

The story of John Wolcott Phelps and his push for Lincoln to emancipate all slaves.

Without a more fundamental transformation of criminal law, public defenders often provide only a limited form of equality and fairness before the law.

On the ten year anniversary of Aziz Rana's book, Henry Brooks interviews him on his influential book and what it might teach us about the legacies of populism.

Beyond packing schemes, we need to diminish the high court’s power.

The story of the democratic movements that the framers of the U.S. Constitution feared and sought to suppress.

A new book systematically defends the American Founding against those who believe it was destined to end in nihilism.

"The problem is the way policing was built," historian Khalil Muhammad says.

The gig economy wasn’t built in a day.

An ancient concept, asylum has become just another political tool in the hands of our government.

Although the British settlers imported Africans from the first as slaves, the earliest Virginians had yet to establish many basic rules regarding slavery.

The complicated privilege of forming a new constituency.

Amid continued standoffs between tribes and states over treaties signed before statehood was achieved, the ruling is a victory for Native rights.

Over the first half of the 20th century, the movement galvanized groups throughout the Americas who helped inaugurate what we think of today as global feminism.

It’s time to adopt paid parental leave as a right.

A decade after the crash of 2008, a growing movement has thrust our prolonged housing crisis to the center of the national agenda.

A hundred and fifty years after its ratification, some of its promises remain unfulfilled—but one day it may still be interpreted anew.

The long road to "Citizens United."