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Until school boards and administrators listen to teachers, they’ll end up with shortages in every crisis.

Historian Richard White on the greed, ineptitude and economic cost behind the transcontinental railroads, and the implications for infrastructure policy today.

What we think we know about stifling inflation could be wrong.

The legacy of slavery is often invoked to explain the stunted welfare state. But the strongest resistance to taxation and redistribution came from the Northern ruling class.

History offers some pointers for government regulators.

This report clarifies five issues commonly raised in debt limit debates and explores some open questions.

From the Nye Committee to Joe Kent, the fight against war profiteering is a constant struggle.

'Isn’t this supposed to be the museum of the motion picture industry?' a historian asks. 'They forgot about the industry part.'

How a series of emergencies resulted in the school lunch programs we have today.

The connections between private industry and government were much more fluid than was previously imagined.

What gets lost when we view the American past as primarily a story about capitalism? 

Black people own just 2 percent of farmland in the United States. A decades-long history of loan denials at the USDA is a major reason why.

A history of cemetery workers' strikes.

A history of the menthol cigarette and its effects on Black people.

The last from-the-top critique of American overconsumption generated a massive backlash.

Robert Nisbet predicted the managerialism that has brought universities low. But he also saw a way out.

New books investigate the brutality of the internal slave trade by focusing on businesses, and examine the role of white women in enslaving Black people.

How the predominant ideology of our time survived the pandemic.

One bank's desperation and a state's economic needs undermined regulations protecting consumers.

The economist, along with David Card, was instrumental in changing America’s mind about the minimum wage.

And why stopping the subsidies can help bring it back.

For political reasons, powerful people don’t want the country to pay its bills. History shows all that could go wrong.

Why a policy agenda adopted in the name of entrepreneurs hurt entrepreneurs more than it helped them.

Today's centrists are a hot mess.

John C. Calhoun knew what a strong federal government might do.

The movement launched a generation of leftist activists –and gave them a vision of real change.

How the Tragedy of the Commons theory played out in reality.

William Darity and A. Kirsten Mullen’s case for reparations.

A six-hour workday could have become the national standard during the Great Depression. Here's the story of why that didn't happen.

Ideas about working from the employee perspective.