Excerpts

The importance of contextualization and critical evaluation in historical analysis.

The right’s long and all-too-unanswered war on liberal institutions claims a big one.

In the 1960s and ’70s, guides began wearing period costumes and farming with historical techniques, a change that coincided with the back-to-the-land movement.

All that talk about "reclaiming" congressional war powers? Historically, Congress has applauded presidential wars.

Reading recommendations from a lifelong education.

“No harm if true; but, in fact, not true.”

How Kahanism infiltrated the political mainstream.

Some of my ancestors had money, and some held awful beliefs. I set out to investigate what I once stood to inherit.

In the 1960s, the government proposed the construction of two dams in the Grand Canyon, potentially flooding much of Grand Canyon National Park.

She was an actress. He was a shortstop. What we can learn from the press parade around this 19th-century power couple.

After 400 years, reality has begun to replace the lies.

A 1990 case from Brown University was the first time a modern university expelled a student for a violation of a "hate speech code.”

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.

Johnny Cash wasn't the only superstar to play in prisons. Music, initially allowed as worship, came to be seen as a rockin' tool of rehabilitation.

Historians get hip to the lasting influences of ’60s counterculture

In a few short years, American festivals went from cultural phenomena to endangered species.

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

The new punk generation made the hippies look past their prime.

A look at early photography reveals the nuances of California's early development.

A new book investigates the indigenous Americans who were brought to or traveled to Europe in the 1500s—a story central to the beginning of globalization.

How popular and official narratives have obscured the damaging impact of the interstate highway system.

Two new books, including ‘Locking Up Our Own,’ address major blind spots about the causes of America’s carceral failure.

How black plaintiffs in the Jim Crow South sought justice.

Excluding him, wrongfully, by a close vote of the Supreme Court could well trigger the next Civil War.

What might appear to be common values about shared identities can serve not as a bridge but a wedge.

A new history of the ‘New York Times.’

Cold War America resettled unaccompanied minors as an anti-communist imperative. Today, the nation forgets this history.

Hesitancy and opposition to vaccines has existed in the past, and such awareness provides needed context to the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccine within American history.

On Kliph Nesteroff’s book, “Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars.”

On the pro-business transformation of the Democratic Party.

America's forgotten migration – the journeys of a million African-Americans from the tobacco South to the cotton South

Peddling lies goes back to antiquity, but during the Tabloid Wars of the 19th-century it reached the widespread outcry and fever pitch of scandal familiar today.

Universal Camouflage Pattern became a symbol of an unpopular war. Today, it’s being reappraised by those too young to remember the invasion of Iraq.

Who's to blame for failures in 2000, 2001 & 2008?

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

With "Force and Freedom," Carter Jackson makes a stimulating and insightful debut which will have a major influence on abolition movement scholarship.

A bad history.

A racist mob forced Opal Lee and her family from their Fort Worth home. Now she has been given the land and a new house is being built for her.

Our water bottle obsession speaks to deeper historical trends.

James Longstreet became an apostate for supporting black civil rights during Reconstruction.

In early America, the soaring ideals behind establishing a new democracy were marked by cycles of progress and backlash.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, students at America’s elite universities were treated differently based on the social stature of their parents.

Military archives reveal the brutal history of slavery in the U.S. Army.

There was really only one big difference between liberal drug warriors and conservative ones.

Bayard Rustin tried to forge a mass coalition to deliver progressive change. His failure to do so in the 1960s tells us much about building one today.

Samuel W. Franklin’s latest book explains how we sold ourselves out to a fake virtue.

What has fueled the hostility between the U.S. and North Korea for decades?

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.

George Leonidas Leslie is still waiting for his HBO series.