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The history and context of the made-up aesthetics of the early Ku Klux Klan.

Revelations about secret government programs after Kennedy’s assassination increased the power of conspiracy theories.

How digital media pursued viral traffic at all costs and unleashed chaos.

The conservative comedian spoke out for gay rights and gun control, and got boycotted and ostracized by friends on the right, including Ronald Reagan.

Children’s entertainment always embodies local values.

The city might have gone up in flames after MLK's assassination, if not for the quick actions of a DJ, a city councilor, and The Hardest Working Man In Show Business.

As modern lawmakers consider various means of public assistance for local news, they can learn from the founders’ approach to supporting journals and gazettes.

Debunking claims that news media fueled public disillusionment and cost the US victory.

Scott Trust to invest in decade-long programme of restorative justice after academic research into newspaper’s origins.

Through six decades, gunmakers and advertisers leveraged social and cultural changes to broaden the AR-15′s appeal.

The Los Angeles Times will no longer use "internment" to describe the mass incarceration of 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry during World War II.

She risked everything to escape a life of poverty and become one of the nation's most read columnists, while advocating for the advancement of women.

The man who changed America.

A zealot through and through, he ran the FBI like a religious sect.

Does marijuana prohibition have racist origins? Where did ideas of “reefer madness” come from? This project looks to the historical record for answers.

News organizations air lies from political figures more often than you’d think, but for very different reasons than Fox News.

For nearly a century, Americans have been throwing the term around—without agreeing what that means.

Norris, who dubbed herself the "Queen of Bohemia," exposed the injustices of post-Gilded Age New York City—by going undercover.

Soon after he was elected, Abraham Lincoln received a rather bizarre letter.

Written during World War II, Bungleton Green and the Mystic Commandos imagined a future liberated from racism and inequality.

The paper’s anti-trans coverage parallels its failings over gay rights and AIDS. But the Times appears determined not to learn from its own history.

This demonym will allow other Englishers to be recognized for their own locales.

Historian Adam Lee Cilli effectively illustrates the centrality of Black Pittsburgh within the larger Black Freedom Struggle.

Labeled a local eccentric, millionaire James Eads How used his inherited wealth to support vagrant communities.

"I idolized women like Marvel Cooke," Angela Davis tells Teen Vogue.

In 1970, an all-white state commission thought Mississippi was "not yet ready" to see a racially integration depicted on television. The backlash was swift.

Native editors are fighting back.

With bar graphs and pie charts, the sociologist and his Atlanta students demonstrated Black excellence in the face of widespread discrimination.

A chatbot billed as an educational tool falsely portrays historical figures, including dictators and Nazis, as apologetic for their crimes.

Lee's life and work suggested that Asian American identity did not possess—and did not need—any underlying reality beyond solidarity.