Excerpts

Where the rediscovery of Sam Francis goes wrong.

On the movement that fought for old-age pensions during the Great Depression.

How the dystopian visions of the nativist right are in keeping with a long tradition of neoliberal ideology.

John Quincy Adams challenges the idea of an expanding American frontier. 

Why his turn-of-the-century travelogue still resonates.

The long history of promising an “efficient” federal government. 

Columbia is at war with its intellectual heritage.

On the centuries-long historical evolution of a serpentine symbol.

Letters, diaries, and remembrances shared on JSTOR by University of the Pacific reveal the hardships of day-to-day life during the California Gold Rush.

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book "America, América: A New History of the New World."

Legendary filmmaker Oliver Stone says we’re closer than ever to finally piecing together the mystery of November 22, 1963.

The complex, sometimes romanticized, but ultimately prophetic Catholic peace movement has critical lessons for today's America amid a genocidal war in Gaza.

Late last month, President Donald Trump issued an executive order to restore “truth and sanity to American history.”

In a new book, the Pulitzer Prize winner Greg Grandin tells the history of the hemisphere from south of the border.

Effective Republican organizing and intraparty divisions among Democrats solidified GOP political dominance until the 1930s.

The 1790s debate shows that, even when they aim at moral goods, tariffs abet cronyism and corruption.

Shulamith Firestone and the burdens of prophecy.

Today no one on either side of the political spectrum would present themselves as an enemy of choice. Sophia Rosenfeld exposes the complex legacy of this idea.

If the justices take up a case on Virginia’s felon disenfranchisement law, they’ll be burrowing back to Reconstruction-era jurisprudence.

If you've noticed a certain look common to the manosphere, you're not mistaken. A visual identity has taken hold, with roots that trace back decades.

More than a year before Pearl Harbor, President FDR heard arguments from the civil rights leaders of the era for the desegregation of the military.

In the early twentieth century, architects turned to a newly discovered past to craft novel visions of the future: the ancient history of Mesopotamia.

According to Andrew Kahrl, the property tax has been used to disposs black homeowners since the 19th century.

1925 marked the peak of the Florida land boom. But false advertising and natural disasters thwarted many settlers’ visions of striking it rich.

For decades, the term “school choice” was widely and rightly dismissed as racist. Now it’s the law in thirty-three states.

And what happens when empirical fact is labeled “improper ideology.”

The birth of the sanctuary movement some 45 years ago can teach us a lot about how to respond to today’s attacks on immigrants.

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America.

Five women who made important contributions to 19th-century American philosophy finally get their due.

Identifying Sophie Mousseau from a Civil War-Era photo helps us understand our complex past.

An exploration of the contrast between the supreme confidence of Kennan's policy prescriptions and the perpetual turbulence of his inner life.

A detailed guide to the old stories and landscapes of New York City, published in the last year of the 19th century.

During World War I, America lurched toward autocracy. Resistance was minimal.

The demystification of pregnancy.

An interview with Steven Conn about his new book, “Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is—and Isn’t.”

Now, and for some years to come, we will need a lot less Paul Weiss, and a lot more Benjamin Warner.

It’s time for another national teach-in movement.

The 250th anniversary of "the shot heard round the world" is a reminder of the rights the Patriots fought for.

The university’s last “finest hour” was more than 200 years ago.

Americans need to reconnect with their innate dislike of arbitrary rule.

Greg Grandin’s sweeping history of the new world shows how immutably intertwined the United States is with Latin America.

How today’s far right manages to combine the call for economic freedom with pseudoscience about natural hierarchies of race and IQ.

Donald Trump is using decades-old laws to expel critics and opponents.

New York would never be the Puritans' austere city on a hill, yet it became America’s vibrant heart of capitalism.

As Americans file their taxes this tax season, the Trump administration threatens to unravel the modern fiscal state.

Under the Trump administration's book police, Jackie Robinson’s life and actions are considered dangerous memories.

Can a new book rescue Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre’s activism from irrelevance?

A new book highlights Josephine Baker’s wartime contribution, and how she used her fame to provide cover and promote equal rights.

Chief Justice John Roberts called it “obvious” that the infamous decision has “no place in law under the Constitution.” Recent events suggest otherwise.

The National Garden of American Heroes represents a dangerous shift in values—from inquiry to reverence.