Jimmy Carter

Five months before his assassination in 1978, Harvey Milk called on the president of the United States to defend the rights of gay and lesbian Americans.

U.S.-China relations have evolved from tense standoffs to a complex mix of intensifying diplomacy, growing international rivalry, and increasingly intertwined economies.

The history of control and decontrol in the oil market.

The long, strange saga of government cheese.

Historian Gary Gerstle lays out an era's policies and ideologies, and what undermined them.

What connection does the party of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson have to the party of Barack Obama and Kamala Harris?

"Urban Legends: The South Bronx in Representation and Ruin" is a vibrant cultural history that looks beyond pervasive narratives of cultural renaissance and urban neglect.

When Executive Order 9066 forcibly removed my family from their community 80 years ago, we lost more than I realized.

Over the past century, the United States came to rely ever more on economic coercion—with questionable results.

The King holiday is more than a time for reflection. It’s really a time for provocation.

Somewhere in Jamaica survive the original cannabis strains that were not burned by American agents or bred to be more profitable.

Tammy Wynette and Johnny Cash cancelled gigs in Belfast during the violent 1970s, but Pride played on.

The history of the United States as the history of capitalism.

Policies dating to the 1930s have helped shape the conflict defining today’s politics.

Understanding how the National Park Service Director is chosen is important for understanding the current state of our national parks system.

The rhetoric about abortion being the catalyst for the rise of the Religious Right collapses under scrutiny.

The US has long had a brutal, domineering relationship with the Philippines. And crucially, it’s depended on the labor of colonized Filipinos themselves.

How public interest groups inadvertently aided the right’s ascendency.

How the 33rd president finagled his way to a post–White House fortune — and created a damaging precedent.

The recent ProPublica exposé shows we need to attack the wealth and power of the rich — and that means massively increasing taxes on them.