Excerpts

Neuroscientist Bita Moghaddam traces the history of ketamine from the battlefield to the dance floor.

Amrita Myers paints freedom as a process in which Black women used the tools available to them to secure rights and privileges within a slave society.

An intellectual history of inequality in economic theory reveals the ideological reasons behind the field’s resurgence in the last few decades.

Age of Revolutions was happy to interview Nathan Perl-Rosenthal about his new book, entitled 'The Age of Revolutions and the Generations Who Made It.'

Disappearing foods – and why they need protecting.

The turbulent history of an often forgotten moment that would leave blood in the streets and shape the modern landscape of Chicago.

According to Geoffrey Levin’s ‘Our Palestine Question,’ divides over Israeli policy aren’t new – they existed before American Jews fully embraced Zionism.

A conversation with Erika Marie Bsumek about one of the worst boondoggles in the Southwest.

The culture of calamity from the Jamestown Colony to the Johnstown Flood.

When we think of Jonathan Edwards, most probably think first of him as a theologian or preacher. But a new book also shows him as a mentor.

In 1967, Milton Friedman launched a counterrevolution in economics that overturned the Keynesian theory of inflation.

An interview with Jennifer Burns on her authoritative new biography of the American economist and the personal and intellectual origins of his theories.

Coming to terms with Boston’s racist legacy in “Small Mercies."

As director of the FBI for decades, J. Edgar Hoover helped build a massive, professionalized national security state and hounded leftists out of public life.

In March 1911, the segregated Crownsville asylum opened outside Baltimore, Maryland, admitting only Black patients.

Recovering the long-overlooked significance of the “hillbilly highway” in the US, with implications for labor history as well as US history broadly.

On the rise of suburban vigilantes and NIMBYs in the late 20th century and their enduring power today.

A Q&A with Matthew Lassiter about how liberal policymakers and white parents drove the escalation of the War on Drugs.

A conversation with historian Peter Cole about his recent book, Dockworker Power.

A conversation with Jill Lepore about the past decade — “a time that felt like a time, felt like history.”

The new podcast discusses how purity is woven into many of the myths that have fed White supremacy in the nation’s past and continue to do so today.

The editors of a new book talk about the history of the Indiana facility — written by people who were held there almost 150 years later.

The internet has expanded how we understand the possibilities of the trans experience.

The strange and contradicting development of the liberal version of egalitarianism.

A discussion on the difficulty of keeping faith in a foundationally anti-Black republic.

On the 14th amendment – and if it might stop Trump.

Abortion rights in the US were won in the 1970s thanks to militant feminist groups. As those rights are repealed, the fight must return to the streets.

A conversation with the longtime director about “Rustin,” growing up in Kentucky, and putting on a show.

A conversation about "the gains and pains of America’s exercise obsession."

"It's the story of a family who had been denied justice about a piece of land they owned for at least 160 years."

Robert D. Bullard reflects on the movement he helped to create.

On the white Christian legacy of J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI.

How Black support for Zionism morphed into support for Palestine.

The archives of the historically Black Tuskegee University recently released recordings from 1957 to 1971, with a number by powerful civil rights leaders.

15th century dogma connects the genocide and land dispossession of Native Americans with the enslavement and oppression of African Americans throughout history.

How white-dominated racial power produces inter-ethnic group conflict.

A new book exposes effects of anti-Black myth-making and calls for an end to the family policing system.

The famed opera has been criticized for its racist portrayals of Asian-Americans.

A conversation about the Cold War’s profound and negative influence on the liberal worldview.

The welfare rights movement of the 1960s and ’70s resisted invasive policies. Their animating vision: that society treat every mother and child with dignity.

A-bomb architect “was no Einstein,” historian says, but he did Nobel-level work on black holes.

What it means to be a Black worker in the time since slavery.

How documenting the history of the drug war is a “community project” and reflections on 1990s rap music's anti-crack hits.

Uncovering a tradition of African American radicalism that was—and is—a crucial part of the American left’s history.

Jim Crow terror, within and outside the law.

Watching 'Oppenheimer' with the author of a definitive account of the Manhattan Project.

The long-term impact of Quarles’s work.

Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton lived an unapologetic life that transcended genres and gender norms beyond her bluesy hit song and the “Elvis moment.”

What happened after the destruction of Greenwood, once home to some of the wealthiest African Americans in the US.

The esteemed labor historian reflects on his life and career, including Berkeley in the 1960s, Walter Reuther, the early UAW, Walmart, Bill Clinton, and more.