J. Edgar Hoover

While the Panthers have become a staple of pop culture, veteran members of the group remain invisible.

The new crime thriller about a magnetic leader of the Black Panther Party is a sharp criticism of the FBI’s surveillance of social movements past and present.

In 1971, armed officers went to a house occupied by Black Panther activists, marking a policing trajectory toward a more militarized response to Black activism.

A new book about the Lindbergh baby kidnapping focuses on the role played by the media.

On the passage and enforcement of laws to exclude or deport immigrants for their beliefs, and the people who challenged those laws.

A patriotic parade, a bloody brawl, and the origins of U.S. law enforcement’s war on the political left.

She designed Social Security and public works programs that helped bring millions out of poverty. Her work has been largely forgotten.

How government commissions became alibis for inaction.

Union activists linked the struggle for black equality in housing, employment, and at the ballot box, to the broader struggle against capitalist domination.

Martin Luther King Jr. proposed a fix for America’s poisoned soul: ending the Vietnam War.

Sarah Collins Rudolph survived the 1963 church bombing that killed her sister and three other girls. She's still waiting on restitution and an apology.

At a peaceful protest of Confederate imagery in the school in 1970, dozens of students were arrested, suspended, and the remainder expelled.

In 1953, as a political battle raged over the US’s nuclear future, the physicist lost a classified document on an overnight train from Philadelphia to DC.

Recently unearthed surveillance documents show how the FBI tried to destroy the Poor People’s Movement.

50 years after King's death, his image has been transformed and stripped of its radicalism.

A new book chronicles the shocking, decades-long effort to combat venereal disease by locking up girls and women.

The FBI has long tried to destroy socialist organizations, but its actions aren't limited to surveillance.

Just as as McCarthyism did decades ago, Trumpism conceals the Republican Party’s long-term program to dismantle the public sector.

Our identity is mapped at our fingertips, but also, maybe, our individual fate.

The one consistent message coming out of today's White House was born in the 1970s: Don’t trust any institution.