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As the country celebrates Jackie Robinson Day, let’s consider the career of Fleet Walker.

A contemporary Atlantic writer reflects on one of the voices from the magazine's archives who helped shape the publication—and the nation.

Generations of utopians seeking inspiration and sea breezes made the trek from Greenwich Village to Cape Cod’s picturesque vistas.

The baby boy who would one day become the renowned and feared leader of the Lakotas was the second child of Returns Again and Her Holy Door.

A few weeks in the woods have taught kids to face new situations, make their way among strangers, solve their own problems—and live a more authentic life.

Craig McNamara’s family did not talk about the Vietnam War. He spent his life asking questions about it.

The contradictory past and uncertain future of the Democratic Party.

Back in the 19th century, coal was the nation's newfangled fuel source—and it faced the same resistance as wind and solar today.

The city is at a crossroads. Which path will it take?

The right might be targeting a seminal Supreme Court case that protects educational fairness.

It's the resurrection of an old dream.

A contemporary Atlantic writer reflects on one of the voices from the magazine's archives who helped shape the publication—and the nation.

A new book situates the War on Terror as a story of domination which traces back to the founding of the US as a settler-colonial and slaveholding behemoth.

On April 27, 1865, a steamboat named the Sultana exploded and an estimated 1,800 people died, but few today have heard of this disaster.

The leader of a would-be South Carolina slave rebellion was hanged 200 years ago. A new account is a must-read.

Comparing the results of two Louisiana slave rebellions 20 years apart and what that meant for the continuation of slavery within the Deep South.

At the same time that MLK was using TV to brand Southern sheriffs as obstacles to progress, a Southern sheriff was one of the medium's most beloved characters.

The global economic order and the myth of sovereignty.

Francis Fukuyama pines for that old-time liberalism.

A review of "Driving With Strangers: What Hitchhiking Tells Us About Humanity."

Uncovering the resort where rich women sought the elusive right to divorce

What we can learn from the work of the university administrator who went toe to toe with Howard Zinn.

How the city’s pioneering, pot-smoking queer activist rose from the ashes of anti-gay violence.

How Ralph Ellison got Invisible Man into the canon.

Historian Isaac Campos traces the origins of the idea that marijuana causes violent madness…and finds the trail leads south, to Mexico.

How neoliberals and conservatives came together to undo the welfare state.

A new history makes a case for the world-ordering power of wheat.

Freedom and prosperity are the most effective cure for the scars of slavery and racism.

“I’m going to find out what the hell the FBI did and I’m going to expose it to the world.”

One hundred years ago, Ralph Samuelson successfully skied across the waters of Lake Pepin.

The history of haunted houses in the movies.

Spies, counterinsurgency campaigns, hippie entrepreneurs, privacy apps funded by the CIA.

A new biography of Robert Welch traces the origins and history of the anti-Communist John Birch Society and provides historical perspective on the Trump era.

A new book explores Abraham Lincoln's interactions with African Americans during his presidency.

The right to abortion is an affirmation that women and girls have the right to control their own destiny.

Why Barnum Brown could not stop collecting.

In the 1970s and 1980s, homeowners were terrified by the idea that they didn't own the land they'd just bought.

Pauli Murray, the first Black woman to be ordained by the Episcopal Church, was an advocate for women’s rights and racial justice.

Wetlands absorb carbon dioxide and buffer the excesses of drought and flood, yet we’ve drained much of this land. Can we learn to love our swamps?

For many reasons, senators don’t have the time, or the inclination, to get to know one another—least of all members of the other party.

The practice of vaccination in the U.S. cannot be divorced from the history of slavery.

July 4 and the perils of celebrating America’s past.

As much as we may wish otherwise, history gives us few reasons to believe that its moral arc bends toward justice.

The recent march in South Carolina, demanding removal of the Confederate flag from the state Capitol is the latest episode in a long-running debate over slavery's legacy.

"To render the world more beautiful than it really is, as so many landscape photographers before Adams routinely did, is dishonest."

Tales of the treasured South American-born, Southern-bred vegetable (yes, vegetable).

A shoreline expert writes about dredging vessels, Louisiana, neoliberalism, and her lifelong quest to save her hometown from the sea.

Just over 100 years ago, loop-the-loops were painful, not sturdy, and much more dangerous than they are today.

The reasons that Nixon’s scandal endures when other presidents’ disgraces have not.

For the 30th anniversary of "Dirty Dancing," we spoke to the film's screenwriter about her revolutionary decision to include a depiction of an illegal abortion.