Excerpts

A conversation with the author of a forthcoming book about the twists and turns of Marx's legacy in America.

The notion that gun control has racist origins is popular in gun rights circles. Here's what's wrong with the claim.

A conversation with the creator of a virtual reality experience that takes you inside the protests leading up to MLK Jr.’s death.

An interview with a historian of Hamilton. That is, an “interview” in the modern sense of questions and answers and not in the Hamilton-Burr sense of pistols at dawn.

An art historian explains how portraits can convey so much more than mere likeness.

African American marriages before and after the Civil War.

Now all but forgotten, a group of New York socialites was instrumental to the success of the suffrage movement.

Here's what he thinks about national anthem protests.

On the 45th anniversary of the famous decision, Sarah Weddington reflects on what has – and hasn't – changed.

Talking sexism, ageism, and progress with Katha Pollitt.

Leslie Gelb supervised the team that compiled the Pentagon Papers. He explains what Steven Spielberg's new film gets wrong.

"It's still white history. And no amount of casting people of color disguises the fact that they're erasing people of color from the actual narrative."

How one black woman's campaign for justice after a rape by six white men shaped the struggle for equality—and the #MeToo movement.

Since the 1950s, disparities along class and racial lines have defined the nation's drug policy.

The author of a new biography of James McGill Buchanan explains how this little-known libertarian’s work is influencing modern-day politics.

What the political crisis in post-revolutionary America has to teach us about our own time.

The wealth gap between white Americans and black Americans is stark.

Vietnam was not a "tragic misunderstanding" but a campaign of "imperial aggression."

Historian Judith Stein debunks liberal myths about racism, the New Deal, and why the Democrats moved right.

On the uses and abuses of civil rights heroes.

"I don't believe slavery ended in 1865, I believe it just evolved."

Underlying current debates, says Jill Lepore, are fundamental conflicts over the meanings of the past.

An interview with the filmmakers.

It happened long before a special prosecutor was appointed to investigate the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia. 

Before New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu made his celebrated speech, a grassroots movement forced the city to take down its monuments to white supremacy.

Two historians weigh in on President Obama's move to designate a national monument to Reconstruction in South Carolina.

During the Depression, more than a million people of Mexican descent were deported. Author Francisco Balderrama says that most were American citizens.

Donald Trump’s restrictive plan is reminiscent of legislation from 100 years ago.

A conversation with the creator of a new social-media project that commemorates refugees the United States turned away in 1939.