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Two new books tell the stories of people kidnapped and sold into slavery. One of them sued successfully.

As the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 proposes to revive the Comstock Act, this seven-part forum explores the Act’s influence on American life.

On the centrality of the working classes to the Arab American immigrant experience and the pivotal roles Arab Americans played in American labor.

“Allotment”—and its repercussions.

Keir Milburn argues that generational analysis can explain class operation while Adolph Reed Jr. writes that it obscures historically specific social relations.

The Civil War cut short many lives, and a new a book that blends the genres of history and memoir sets out the resurrect the memory of one of those lives.

How German Enlightenment thought influenced Abraham Lincoln.

The growth of Seattle in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is inseparable from the arrival of laborers from the US-colonized Philippines.

A new digital project shows how those who escaped slavery were important actors in the challenge not just to their own enslavement but to slavery more broadly.

History illustrates that voters become galvanized and change their party allegiance when former US presidents run for a nonconsecutive term.

On "The Vietnam War."

Two new books reveal the shortcomings at the heart of the liberal critique of Trump voters.

The July 1924 killing of Robert Imbrie fueled the rise of the Pahlavi dynasty and set the stage for a CIA-backed 1953 coup and the 1979 Iran hostage crisis.

How women's liberation transformed America and why our understanding of 1963-1973 needs to include more voices.

Scientists peered into the partisan abyss. They looked to see why hostility has become so high between groups with different political leanings.

Twenty years ago, a trio of Calfornian stoners released a polemic against Republican America that politicised a generation.

During the half-century between Lincoln and Woodrow Wilson, class warfare in the United States was always robust, usually ferocious, and often homicidal.

The push to build large police training facilities follows on a long history of armories as both symbols and manifestations of state power.

Blue America lacks a Gov. Ron DeSantis: someone remaking a state or major city in the image of a well-articulated ideology.

As women stretch themselves thin, homesteader influencers sell them an image of containment.

The night violent anti-government conspirators sowed chaos in the heart of Manhattan.

Samuel Gompers, the Teamsters at the Republican National Convention, and where unions fit into party politics.

A new book charts the history of pet cemeteries and honors the universal experience of grieving an animal companion.

In two new books, the rise of recycling is a story of illusory promises, often entwined with disturbing political agendas.

Drawn to communities of German socialist expatriates in the area, Marx once considered making his way to Texas.

New books reconsider how Ulysses S. Grant became a forceful defender of the rights of African Americans after the Civil War.

An interactive exhibit that explores the events and consequences of the deadliest racial conflict in Arkansas history.

A recent history revisits the Tokyo trial.

The little known history of 19th-century New York City.

“Postpartum depression” encompasses various debilitating changes in mood that can occur after giving birth. How did that language come to be?

The uncompromising idealism of student protesters is rooted in social and economic isolation and detachment.

Why one journalist worked with Black American families to adopt mixed-race German children after World War II.

Each generation of this country’s workforce has always been urged to detest the next—to come up with its own fantasies of cat-eating immigrants.

Presidential polls are no more reliable than they were a century ago. So why do they consume our political lives?

This election year, two women of South Asian descent—Kamala Harris and Usha Vance—take center stage. What can their identities tell us about their approach?

On Joan of Arc’s much-maligned and forgotten haircut.

Black internationalism broadened our politics of solidarity.

Fake photographs of the US president sparked calls for regulation of analog photo editing.

When Nixon practiced law, he declined divorce cases because he disliked frank sexual talk from women. Trump asked Playboy to run a “Girls of Trump” feature.

Horace Greeley ran against incumbent Ulysses S. Grant in November 1872. Twenty-four days later, he died of unknown causes at a private mental health facility.

While it is rare for foreign policy differences between the political parties to affect electoral outcomes, it has happened before.

Harris is taking a page from the playbook that has long helped women advance the quest for equality.

We took a closer look at how Americans’ views and experiences have evolved on a variety of topics over the last 20 years.

American democracy has been haunted by the spectre of a Caesar-type figure since the birth of the republic. Have such fears ever been justified?

How researchers analyzed limestone to determine the age and origins of the grave maker, which marked the final resting place of a prominent Jamestown colonist.

Harris' rhetoric about working at McDonald's shows how Democrats have rethought their 1990s emphasis on fast food jobs.

When FDR found out how beholden New York politicians were to mobsters, he ordered the Seabury commission to investigate.

The controversial career of John E. Mack, the Pulitzer Prize–winning Harvard psychiatrist who wrote best-selling books on UFO abduction.

A changing political mood among evangelicals has many believers imagining the end of the world differently than they used to.

An excerpt from the new book "Willie, Waylon, and the Boys."