Excerpts

Chicago economists had free rein in Chile. The country is still recovering.

After Congress robbed Washingtonians of local and federal representation, decades of activism -- slowed by racist opposition -- finally succeeded in 1973.

In Charleston, a monument to John C. Calhoun squares off against its symbolic rival, the steeple of Emanuel A.M.E. Church, where a white supremacist killed nine.

A 1941 novel by a former Communist Party member about the dog-eat-dog scumbaggery of movie executives and the lying and artless bragging that Hollywood runs on.

The revolutionaries of 1968 didn't succeed, but the world still needs turning upside down.

Tracing the evolution and challenges of fact-checking in journalism.

The Lakota advocate helped thousands of domestic abuse survivors, Native and non-Native alike.

Look closely—very closely—at a Sunday comic strip in a printed newspaper.

Learn more about the story of Matilda Gage, whose writings inspired the witches in "The Wizard of Oz."

After the English Revolution—and an island’s experiment with republicanism—a genuine restoration was never in the cards.

Paid less than their white counterparts, Black men in the United States Colored Troops fought for the Union and the future of their families.

The significance of New Year’s Eve ‘watch night’ services for Black Americans.

A visual breakdown of the U.S. Senate by age.

At the very beginning of the auto industry, no less than three radically different design-for-maintenance philosophies fought it out.

The symbolic battles of World War I.

The iconic fusion of country and rock in Gram Parsons' legacy.

Before the Endangered Species Act, the federal government had actually encouraged the killing of certain species.

Looking at the development of cotton as a global commodity helps us understand how capitalism emerged.

Another way to look at controversial historical figures.

Ever since the 1969 Stonewall Riots, L.G.B.T.Q. communities have gathered there to express their joy, their anger, their pain and their power.

Can you run for president from a prison cell? One man did in the 1920 election and got almost a million votes.

"Ebony" strives to become a one-stop shop.

How college basketball coach Pat Summitt transformed women's sports.

A descendant of concentration camp survivors argues that using the right vocabulary can help clarify the stakes when confronting wartime trauma

On the complex history of “passing” in America.

Creating a personal myth allows celebrities to create just that—a myth.

'All men are created equal' coexisted with the understanding that not all were meant to be treated equally in life.

The Bonaventure Hotel was a battleground in the war between transnational real estate capital and the city’s multiracial working class.

Considering the suppressed legacy of Claude McKay’s two “lost” novels, “Amiable with Big Teeth” and “Romance in Marseille.”

The 1619 Project claimed to reveal the unknown history of slavery. It ended up helping to distort the real history of slavery and the struggle against it.

Anthem for a forgotten cohort.

As long as the U.S. system privileges private property, thousands of acres of public lands will remain off limits.

How William Cooper envisioned a web entangling global capitalism, the government, and UFOs, and incubated the politics of conspiracy.

Oppenheimer and the demon heart of power.

Once considered a relic of moral panics past, the 1873 law criminalized sending "obscene, lewd or lascivious" materials through the mail.

Unveiling the conflict and consequences in Kirkwood's expansion.

And how those with few resources at their disposal found ways to navigate and negotiate even the direst of situations.

Nazis play a key role as villain in American collective consciousness—but without broad understanding of antisemitism.

Reexamining biases and injustices that the New England Journal of Medicine has historically helped to perpetuate.

Critiques of the Thirteenth Amendment have roots in a long history of activists who understood the imprisonment of Black people as a type of slavery.

During the Civil War, women secretly enlisted as men in the Union Army. No one suspected a thing...until they gave birth.

One man’s archive of a vanished culture.

An in-depth look at horse breeding.

The US military’s greatest enemy worked in an institution saturated with military funding. How did it shape his thought?

The 14th Amendment offers a remedy that is both simpler and likelier to work.

Former Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust’s extraordinary memoir recalls painful memories for her--and me.

Despite Trump’s efforts to overturn the election, a Colorado state judge stretches the word “officer,” permitting him to remain on the state’s ballot.

Our first three years are usually a blur and we don’t remember much before age seven. What are we hiding from ourselves?

The complex history, career, and legacy of one of America's most popular speakers and reformers.

A new biography examines the life and times of the pioneering activist, abolitionist, and writer.