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How should historians respond to the urgency of this current political moment?

Why the first prizefight at Dodger's Stadium would become its last (outside of fiction).

Jews from the Ottoman Empire pioneered the Christmas lights market a century ago — but nativism, antisemitism and islamophobia obscured this history.

Many of the ­private colleges and universities in the US arose as much out of vanity as necessity. But for morbid narcissism, nothing comes close to Stanford.

It’s a political movement willing to align with anyone to win.

Social media makes it even easier to sell the aura of success that was pivotal to both companies.

The senators, like the grand jurors, knew their man, and probably conceded that Temple had given him the hiding he had been asking for. 

Inside the strife set off by an essay from the president of the American Historical Association.

The elixir had antifreeze, for flavor. Nobody blinked—at first.

"Blonde," a heavily fictionalized film by Andrew Dominik, explores the star's life and legend in a narrative that's equal parts glamorous and disturbing.

Twenty-five years of neoliberal political economy are to blame for today's regime of surveillance advertising, and only public policy can undo it.

In the absence of tax dollars, American cities like Baltimore are now funding themselves by fining the poor instead of taxing the rich.

When James G. Blaine went to war with his son's ex-wife in the national press, he had no idea that two could play that game.

Authorities who investigated Jane Stanford’s mysterious death said the wealthy widow had no enemies. A new book finds that she had many.

The Southern Baptist Convention is tearing itself apart over its leaders’ long-running cover-up of abusers in its ranks. But there’s a deeper reckoning below.

Even if her husband was a murderer, a woman in a bad marriage once had few options. Unless she fled to South Dakota.

The public widely opposed wiretapping until the 1970s. What changed?

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

The most influential preacher in the country, Beecher aggressively agitated for the Union to extend complete forgiveness to Confederates.

How a bloody gun duel between two doctors in Transylvania sparked a frenzy of outrage—and helped create the American Medical Association.