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Two differing explorations of post-WWII culture, politics, and ideals.

How Istanbul changed his career—and his life.

Extractive industries filling public university coffers on stolen land. Here's how 14 land-grant colleges took 8.2 million acres from 123 Indigenous nations.

After World War II ended, government and military leaders were ready to return women to their domestic roles. But one woman had other ideas.

Even throwing off of a colonial power, representative institutions, Protestantism, and local autonomy in school decisions did not produce an egalitarian system.

In Chicago, preservationists have launched an unusual effort to explore the radical history of the 1960s civil rights group through the city’s built environment.

In “The Court at War,” Cliff Sloan examines the close relationship between FDR and the high court during World War II.

A conversation about James Baldwin’s 1967 essay, “Negroes are Anti-Semitic Because They are Anti-White.”

The two-volume ‘Codex of the Endangered Species Act’ takes a long look back — and forward.

When Miles Davis went electric in the late 1960s, he overhauled his thinking about songs, genres, and what it meant to lead a band.

In sending military aid to Ukraine, America’s values and security interests are aligned.

Isaiah Bowman was one of the worst college presidents in American history.

Despite knowing that plastic recycling wouldn't work, new documents show how petrochemical companies promoted it anyway.

In resurrecting stories of non- and anti-Zionist critics, a new book shows American Jews how questioning Israel is deeply rooted in their community.

On the inseparable histories of matrimony and disunion in the United States.

In the past 3 months, two people in the US have taken or risked taking their own lives in an attempt to change US policies on Palestine and call for a cease-fire.

Today, tech platforms, including social media, are the new common carriers.

How plantation fiction fixed ghost stories to Black Americans.

The reflections of Emerson, Thoreau, and William James one finds a characteristically nineteenth-century American sense of resilience and regeneration.

Meet cartography's most persistent mistake.

Richard Staff interviews four former Brooklyn Dodgers players, who, despite the team's move to Los Angeles, still identify with their Brooklyn roots.

The COVID-19 pandemic affected us in millions of ways. But it evades the meanings we want it to bear.

Mexicali’s "Colorado River Family Album" documents what is no more.

This 1994 documentary brings the passions and agonies of Mississippi’s voter-registration drive into the present tense.

Edda L. Fields-Black sets out to restore the Combahee River Raid to its proper place in Tubman’s life and in the war on slavery.

My ancestors were the good whites, or at least that’s what I’ve always wanted to believe.

How solid is the wall between church and state?

Before Theodore Roosevelt Island was transformed, a prominent Virginia family relied on enslaved laborers to build and tend to its summer home.

San Diego's city-wide mission to promote sustainability, combat climate change, and reduce environmental health disparities.

With low police morale, limited peacekeeping ability and agitated immigrants, the city only needed a match to set it ablaze.

For most of American history, Washington's Birthday was a really big deal, but that’s changed a lot since the middle of the twentieth century.

Mexico's resistance to the institution of slavery made it a land ripe for African American immigration in the 1800s.

While engagement or wedding rings are certainly not a new idea, the prevalence of diamonds is a more recent phenomenon.

While some in the West are squeamish, globally, it's more common than not.

After "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," the nightmare of American familyhood was the only game in town.

Too often, U.S. support for open navigation has devolved into military conflict.

Harriet M. Buss' missives home detail the future congressman's candid views on race and the complicity of Confederate women.

An astonishing new show of Native American ledger drawings brings a historic crime into focus.

A unique set of composite photographs by Lewis Hine depicting Southern cotton mill workers.

The 28th President of the United States enabled segregation and vile treatment of Black federal workers. He doesn’t deserve an image rehabilitation.

The President's spiritual journey transformed him and the nation.

Peanuts’ Franklin has been a controversial character for decades. A new special attempts reparations.

Americans have long tried to hold parents responsible for their children’s misdeeds—but it never really works.

The most ambitious social experiment in American history that until 1877, explicitly rejected the core values of Victorian capitalism.

The Treaty of Ghent ended the War of 1812, an oft overlooked conflict that continues to shape the politics and culture(s) of North America.

After 40 years and more than 25 million copies sold, what story does ‘Legend’ tell us about Bob Marley and the people listening to it?

Charles Lewis Tiffany bought surplus cable from the venture, turning it into souvenirs that forever linked his name to the telecommunications milestone.

The creators of Yale’s Civil War Memorial were more concerned with honoring “both sides” than with the true meaning of the war.

Before the end of Black History Month, we should remember some of the leaders who shaped the movement in the years before Roe v. Wade.

Journalist, civil rights activist and suffragist, she dedicated her life to documenting injustices against Black Americans and calling for change.