Howard Zinn

The rise of the first Black woman on the Louisiana Supreme Court was characterized by one battle after another with the Deep South’s white power structure.

Jonathan W. Wilson offers a constructively critical review of Wilfred McClay's American history textbook "Land of Hope."

The Supreme Court, the federal branch with the least public accountability, has historically sided with tradition over more expansive human rights visions.

After Baldwin’s biographer died, her niece opened an old desk drawer and discovered a trove of interview material, some of it unpublished.

But it’s one historians know all too well.

Historical narratives of the United States have never not been shaped by an anxiety about the end of it all. Are we a new Rome or a new Zion?

On writing the story of America, the rise and fall of the fact, and how women’s intellectual authority is undermined.

What if America's inability to agree on its shared history—and how to teach it—is a cause of our polarization and political dysfunction, rather than a symptom?

This is even trickier now that the language of critical thinking has been appropriated by the alt-right.

(When It’s Already Summarized in This Article?)

How America’s infatuation with World War II has eroded our conscience.

The left's Pyrrhic victory in the culture wars.

Columbus Day is here again -- along with the controversy over its namesake. How have earlier generations understood him?

A documentary website that tells the story of how young activists united with local people in the Deep South to build a grassroots movement that transformed the nation.