Martin Luther King Jr.

Black people see what is happening to Palestinians, and many feel the tug of the familiar in their heart.

What role do we really want history to be playing in our public life? And is the history we have actually doing that work?

William Bradford Huie’s newly released research notes show he suspected more than two men tortured and killed Emmett Till, but suggest that he left it out.

What was the Popular Front? Where did it come from, and where did its energies go?

But they also find key differences.

Before last weekend’s attack on Donald Trump, would-be assassins targeted Ronald Reagan, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and seven other presidents or candidates.

Activists including W. E .B. Du Bois in the United States and Lajpat Rai in India drew connections between Black American and Indian experiences of white rule.

Stop Cop City meets the establishment.

A new book argues that worship of the Constitution has distorted our politics.

Appeals against the war in Gaza are often framed through the lens of the future: “You will regret having been silent.” What about the present tense?

The sport's greatest figures played ball in the Deep South amid the racism and bigotry that would later make Birmingham the center of the civil rights movement.

Why introductory economics courses continued to teach zombie ideas from before economics became an empirical discipline.

Starting in the 1960s, more and more Hollywood films depicted an increasingly violent and alienated American society quickly losing its mind.

The election will be a challenge for Joe Biden. But looking to the past won’t help him—or us—understand what lies ahead.

An overlooked history of selective policing at Columbia has undermined the safety of those within as well as beyond campus walls.

The enduring necessity (and importance) of a nearly 200-year-old technology.

The legendary actor left a mark in both film history and an industry fraught with self-regard.

The US today has extraordinary levels of gun ownership. But to see this as a venerable tradition is to misread history.

The civil-rights attorney has created a sculpture park, indicting the city of Montgomery—a former capital of the domestic slave trade.

In a circumscribed universe, Black Americans have ceaselessly reinvented themselves.