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Warnings against "normalizing" outrageous political acts misstate the problem. It’s never the immediate present that gets normalized — it’s the not-so-distant past.

After MLK's assassination, James Baldwin attempted to reconcile the divide between the civil rights movement and Black Power.

Learning to shred with the Bush Administration’s Iraq War fall guy.

A roundup of historians' commentary about Billy Graham in the wake of his death.

This weekend is the anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy’s fateful decision to enter the 1968 presidential race. What if he hadn’t?

Unfortunately, there’s not an unlimited amount of daylight that we can squeeze out of our clocks.

Conservatives have used celebrity glitz effectively, too.

It’s unsurprising considering the public careers of today’s political leaders began in the 1970s.

Why the Trump Era demands a better understanding of how racism got us into this mess.

Trump’s Muslim ban was not just an abberation: US citizenship has long been predicated on whiteness as it was understood in 1790.

A historian reveals the crucial role that he played in helping Daniel Ellsberg leak the documents to journalists.

Before Trump, one lobbyist’s pursuit of foreign cash and shady deals laid the groundwork for Washington’s corruption.

The resistance to the Vietnam War was the most diverse and dynamic antiwar movement in U.S. history. We have all but forgotten it today.

Why the 1969 moon landing signaled the end of the massive American empire of the 20th century.

A new book about the My Lai massacre raises the question: how much of an aberration was the infamous wartime episode?

Despite his extreme rhetoric, Trump is merely the latest in a long line of U.S. leaders unwilling to pony up for global environmental accords.

In 1968, a retired colonel warned that urban insurrections could produce “scenes of destruction approaching those of Stalingrad.”

Fifty years ago, the January 1968 battle laid bare the way U.S. leaders had misled the public about the war in Vietnam.

An explanation of the provision that allows for the removal of a president who is deemed by others to be unable to serve.

Eight decades after the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist fire, corporate profits are still being valued more than workers' lives.