Excerpts

Jimmy Carter is associated with an idealistic “human rights agenda.” In reality, he was paving the way for Ronald Reagan’s aggressive anti-communism.

“The world didn’t give It, but the world can’t take It away.”

"Published by the Author" explores the resourcefulness of Black writers of the nineteenth century.

Trump is often described as unprecedented, but in winning a non-consecutive second term, he has a significant antecedent: Grover Cleveland.

Quinn Slobodian and Jennifer Mittelstadt discuss their research on the meanings of “globalism” and “sovereignty” throughout history.

When Thomas Jefferson penned ‘all men are created equal,’ he did not mean individual equality, says Stanford scholar.

Leaders of the political right learned lessons from the 1960s that still inform the movement today.

A conversation with historian Zachary Schrag and his father Philip Schrag about their multi-generational encounters with nuclear threats.

How incarcerated people have become separated from American society.

“Postpartum depression” encompasses various debilitating changes in mood that can occur after giving birth. How did that language come to be?

Scientists and lawmakers in the 70s knew more than we think they did about climate change and the impacts of fossil fuel regulations.

An expert on white nationalism explains how such demonizing rhetoric incubates and spreads—and what sets this particular episode apart.

Demography has not managed to be destiny in the past half-century—but predictions of a millenarian shift have not lost their appeal.

During the Cold War, the AFL-CIO actively participated in efforts to suppress left-wing labor movements abroad.

On the myths and rituals of the market, the lost radicalism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and the rise of neoliberalism.

Klaxon horns, once standard safety equipment, disappeared from the roads after World War I. But the tensions they exposed about urban noise still echo.

An animation historian on Reddy Kilowatt, the cartoon charged with electrifying everything in the early 20th century.

The author of "Cahokia Jazz" reflects on the similarities between historical fiction and science fiction, and the imaginative space opened by archival silences.

The Democratic Party, and the US political system as a whole, is a very strange beast.

In “The Heartland,” Kristin L. Hoganson says America’s Midwest has been more connected to global events than remembered.

1934 world champion runner Zdenek Koubek, boxer Imane Khelif, and how far we haven’t come on gender in sports.

A new book takes on a diagnosis invented to cover up police killings: that men of color are “combusting as a result of their aggressiveness.”

A new book explores the history of presidents who abused their constitutional power and the citizen movements that stopped them.

Deindustrialization has helped create a right-wing turn in many Midwestern towns. Long traditions of labor militancy can explain why it hasn’t in others.

“Night Flyer” expands Harriet Tubman’s legacy to include her family, community and “eco-spiritual worldview.”

A new graphic book unpacks the role that some White women played in suppressing voting rights for all — and the lessons today in the fight for universal ballot access.

How the Federalist Society became the engine of the conservative legal movement—and where it might be headed next.

Tracing financial capital—from J. P. Morgan to BlackRock.

John Ganz’s “When the Clock Broke” renders the signal political battles of the present in an entirely new light.

An interview with Taylor Brown, author of the novel "Rednecks."

“An Ideal for Living” explores the fascinating backstory of a mini music format.

In the early nineties, the country turned against the establishment and right-wing populists thrived. A new history reassesses their impact.

A conversation with the legal scholar on why it is unusual that the Constitution is core to American national identity.

“The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports” upends long-held assumptions about trans people’s participation in sports.

What we can learn from the history of maritime folk music.

A conversation with Corey Robin on the surprisingly weak presidency of Donald Trump.

A conversation with John David Waiheʻe III, former Governor of Hawai‘i, on the U.S. apology to the Hawaiian people.

On how the fringe ideas of a set of American neoliberals became a new and pervasive way of life.

On revisiting the anti-imperialism of the 1960s and ’70s amid the return of left internationalism.

The history of the property tax system and its structural defects that have led to widespread discrimination against Black Americans.

The GOP’s new embrace of Lincoln, emancipation, and Juneteenth is no sign of progress.

Historians Rosemarie Zagarri and Holly Brewer explain the anti-monarchical origins of the Constitution and the presidency.

"I was always working on a theory of America."

A conversation with the activists and writers about their wide-ranging history of the politics of the common good and togetherness.

Luis Valdez on his friendship with Cesar Chavez, his works in the National Film Registry, and a lifetime of activism.

Historian Robin Blackburn has completed a trilogy of books that provide a comprehensive Marxist account of slavery in the New World.

From the 1880s to the 1940s, New York City was transformed—and so too was the New York City Police Department.

A conversation with the man behind World AIDS Day.

A new book gets inside Guatemala’s international adoption industry and the complicated context of deciding a child’s welfare.

Marronage as a placemaking practice, pointing to histories that shape and inspire abolitionist struggles.