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Children from poor families or with special formula needs are most at risk.

From the moment DeFord Bailey stepped onto a stage in Nashville, country music would never be the same. Decades after his death he finally got his due.

Until we grapple with our history, white supremacist terrorism will keep happening.

An expert on the white-power movement and the “great replacement” theory puts the act of terror in context.

In 1911, lesbians led the nation’s largest feminist organization. They promoted a diverse and inclusive women’s rights movement.

Early in the Cuban Revolution, my mother made a consequential decision.

Debates between neighbors escalate over the use of Confederate names within a Northern Virginia neighborhood.

The white supremacist conspiracy theory that has inspired horrific violence in the past five years dates back to Mississippi Sen. Theodore Bilbo.

Colonial lessons in civility from the Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee.

Cuba has spent its entire existence as a state and much of its late colonial past in Uncle Sam’s purported backyard.

Winfred Rembert on protesting in the Jim Crow South and getting arrested.

Black Americans continue to fight for access to the public school systems their forebears created, against a history of white backlash and appropriation.

Who drew that winking chef on your pizza box?

An accounting of racist murders in nineteenth-century America.

In good ways and bad, the Golden Arches have always loomed large in the African American experience.

The Gray Panthers empowered elderly people to see themselves as experts capable of disentangling convoluted bureaucracies.

The 1836 Project will indoctrinate new Texans with fables about our history.

A recollection of a NASA employee's experiences with Apollo 11 and 12.

A new book about Rikers Island is essentially a labor history, revealing how jail guards seized control from managers, politicians, and judges.

75 years ago, black leaders and activists shared a consensus around the importance of the labor movement and multiracial class organizing for black liberation.

At one of Boston’s historical burial grounds, more than 1,000 Black Bostonians were laid to rest in unmarked graves. Their legacy continues to haunt us today.

Kristen Green’s "The Devil’s Half Acre" recounts the story of a fugitive slave jail, and the enslaved woman, Mary Lumpkin, who came to own it.

Putting out the welcome mat for white Christians—while slamming the door in the faces of other migrants—is an American tradition.

After serving in Vietnam, Richard Holbrooke became a proponent of soft power. He would then contribute greatly to American foreign policy.

A new book uses the story of a former slave trader who profited after the Civil War by trafficking in convict labor to trace the historical roots of mass incarceration and racial profiling.

IBM’s chess-playing supercomputer Deep Blue was eclipsed by the neural-net revolution. Now, 25 years on, the machine may get the last laugh.

For more than three centuries, something has been going horribly wrong at the top of our society, and we’re all suffering for it.

Dan Berger interviews Stuart Schrader about his new book on US imperialism.

The extremes to which Puerto Rican national Pedro Albizu Campos and his followers fought for independence.

An author's search for the "real" Christopher Columbus.

To fix things, we must acknowledge the nature of the problem.

Decades after Charles Knowlton died, his book would be credited with reversing population growth in England and the popularization of contraception in the U.S.

The Seneca Nation and the building of the Kinzua Dam.

The men who made the cars could not afford to buy them.

Smell’s diffuse nature requires crossing the boundaries of several subfields within the historical discipline, but also moving beyond the boundaries of history alone.

Mary Lumpkin’s life helps us to better understand the post-Civil War push for education.

Sir Matthew Hale, a 17th-century jurist, has been endlessly quoted by American judges and lawyers, with awful repercussions for women.

During the 2010s, violent attacks by white supremacists and other extremists increased, including at a church in Charleston, S.C. and a synagogue in Pittsburgh.

A new look at detailed data about Civil War skirmishes along the Mississippi River reveals another key to the Union's victory.

At the local level, reparations for slavery are already being paid all over the country.

It wasn’t all young men and guns: the Black Panther Party’s programs fed more hungry kids than the state of California.

Who did neoliberalism?

The history of pimento cheese as a working class fixture and a symbol of Southern culture as seen through mystery novels.

Where previous generations of dancers arranged their steps into tidy, regular phrases, John Bubbles enjambed over bar lines, multiplying, twisting, tilting, turning.

Digital archiving is shoddy and incomplete, and it will hamper the ability of future generations to understand the current era.

In the post-WWII era, American lesbians negotiated lives between straight marriages and homosexual affairs.

Western landscapes and their names are stratified with personal memories, ancestral teachings, mythic events and colonial disturbances.

John Brown and the historical novel.

A new history draws on recently declassified archives to illustrate how the Korean War was an intimate civil conflict, not just a proxy battle between superpowers.

Through her relationships with other women, one can trace the evidence of McCullers’s becoming, as a woman, as a lesbian, and as a writer.