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Here's what we've learned about mass protests since the 1917 Silent Parade.

The precedents for Trump’s hyped-up immigration crackdown.

What E.B. White, Mickey Spillane, Death Wish, hip-hop, and the “Summer of Hell” have in common.

With so little documentary evidence about his life, he is a virtual blank slate upon which different people at different times have inscribed a variety of meanings.

A Q&A with the author of "Enlisting Faith: How the Military Chaplaincy Shaped Religion and State in Modern America."

The banjo's history and its symbolism of community, slavery, resistance, and ultimately America itself.

Max Pine, 91, believes that one day “the Republicans will leap ahead of the Democrats and lead in its enactment.”

Columbia professor Richard R. John explains the history of U.S. monopolies and why antimonopoly should not be conflated with antitrust.

How every major industry and marketplace in America came to be controlled by a single, monolithic player.

A housing policy expert explains how federal government policies created the suburbs and the inner city.

On revolution and violence.

Historian Sara Yael Hirschhorn explains what has driven some American Jews to the most contentious real estate on earth.

Why an historian is compiling a digital database of the military records of 200,000+ black Union soldiers.

Experts weigh in on how historians of the future may assess President Trump's achievements after his first 100 days in office.

How 18th-century British arms sales, the slave trade, and the Revolutionary War contributed to the mess we have today.

An interview with Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter S. Onuf.

A conversation with the author of "Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America."

A conversation on party politics and the durability of our current political system.

How the ban on booze gave rise to prejudiced policing, the penal system, and the modern American right wing.

With wiretapping in the headlines and smart speakers in millions of homes, a look back to the early days of eavesdropping.

Mavis Staples' lyrics span from the civil-rights-era to today's societal issues.

Slave ownership was once as entrenched in American life as gun ownership.

A conversation with Anna Zeide about her book, “Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry.”

When trailers offered a compact version of the American dream.

The myth of Irish slavery has found fertile ground in Internet memes as a way to derail conversation about the need for affirmative action today.

Fifty years ago, teenagers organized a multi-school walkout that galvanized the Mexican-American community in Los Angeles.

In the 1970s, women and people of color streamed into unions, strikes swept the nation, and employers launched a fierce counterattack.

With its race issue, the magazine is trying a different direction. Can it escape its past?

A region that outsiders love to imagine but can’t seem to understand.

There are two critical periods for Christmas. One is the Victorian era. The other is the 1960s.

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.