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Why were in-flight meals so much better in the past?

The first South Asians in British North America.

Black jockeys dominated 19th-century American horse racing, but racism chased them away and undoing that damage has been slow going.

How Lincoln's administration financed the Civil War and transformed the nation's decentralized economy into the global juggernaut of the postwar centuries.

Regulators with no democratic accountability keep bailing out banks and big depositors — at the cost of billions to taxpayers.

A visual journalist remembers a time when "housing was more flexible, fluid and communal than it is today.”

Activists established politically informed shops to offer alternatives to the consumer culture of chain stores, mass production, and multinational corporations.

Labor activists can learn from the decades-long campaign to undermine their influence by focusing on state-level action to bolster their cause.

Ever since the execution of labor radicals in 1886, reactionaries have tried to tarnish their legacy — and leftists have honored them as working-class martyrs.

In his new book, historian Nicholas Dagen Bloom chronicles the collapse of public transportation in US cities — and explains who really deserves the blame.

First, the GOP became the party of tax cuts and now it won't touch entitlements — which makes a balanced budget nearly impossible.

1970s United Fruit CEO Eli Black got caught between the warring ideals of ‘social responsibility’ and shareholder gains.

In the early 1900s heyday of the Socialist Party, Texas boasted a vibrant state party that attracted oppressed farmers in droves.

A recent viral sensation identifies the migration of poor whites as the cause of the problem—letting the rest of us off the hook!

Prohibition—and its newly created underground economy—changed the way women lived, worked, and socialized.

The lawsuit against Controlled Digital Lending is about giving corporations—rather than readers, buyers, borrowers, or authors—control over content.

The historical record says we shouldn’t be surprised.

The paradoxes of C.L.R. James.

A new history dispenses with the sentimental lore and examines how Palo Alto has long been the seedbed for exploitation, chaos, and ecological degradation.

Since the mid-nineteenth century, many labor regulations in the US have been crafted with the express purpose of strengthening the male-breadwinner family.

From civil rights marches to moonwalks, historical imagery that belongs to everyone is locked away behind paywalls. Why?

A century of recorded music has culminated in the infinite archive of streaming platforms. But is it really better for listeners?

By leading the risky but eventually successful financial operation, Elisha justified his name.

For market radicals and neo-Confederates, secession is the path to a world that’s socially divided but economically integrated—separate but global.

What happened in California in the 1970s played an outsized role in creating the world we live in today – both in the United States and globally.

Popular narratives say that black veterans got no real benefits from the GI Bill. In truth, the GI Bill provided a rare positive experience with government.

COVID-19 has recast the often-maligned restaurant drive-thru window as both a critical amenity and a basic comfort.

Saddled with debt and forbidden by the crown to mint money, Boston’s Puritans dreamed up a novel monetary system that we still use today.

Colonial currencies and the pan-American origins of the dollar system.

Harry Bridges may no longer be widely known, but his philosophy of inclusive, democratic unionism imbues much of today’s most ambitious organizing campaigns.