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There are nearly 100 towns named "Troy."

In 1903, a doctor bet $50 that he could cross America by car. The first coast-to-coast road trip in history took 63 days and cost $8,000.

Radicals in the Age of Revolution saw the classical world as a common inheritance that could aid their fight for liberty.

Tying frilly white doves and normative bride-and-groom couples to feminist art and DIY craft practices that offer opportunities for creativity and fantasy.

Far from spelling the end of anti-market politics, basic income proposals are one place where it can and has flourished.

Coca-Cola has made ambitious climate and sustainability pledges, but marketing its products worldwide will always be a top priority.

Every five years, the farm bill brings together Democrats and Republicans. The result is the continued corporatization of agriculture.

A classic ghost story has something to say about America—200 years ago, 100 years ago, and today.

A better understanding of propaganda and how to use it as an educational tool could advance the world in a positive way.

The fear that overtook us that day in 1988 was unfamiliar to most Americans. Now all too many know how it feels.

The armed forces continue to grapple with integrating women into an institution historically designed for men.

Debating the meaning of gender is hardly new, but the clinical origin of the word may come as a surprise.

Forget changing only the names that honor the horrors of the past. Some biologists now argue no species should ever be named after a single individual.

James Oakes’s deeply researched book argues that two very different readings of the 1787 charter put the United States on a course of all but inevitable conflict.

The alleged thieves included one of Connecticut's most prominent sons — former Sen. Prescott Bush, whose son and grandson would both one day be president.

Rachel Maddow’s podcast tells of American Nazis in the 1940s. But the era’s real and lasting authoritarian danger came from the growth of a national security state.

Questions are swirling in New Hampshire around attempts by two local groups to gain tribal recognition.

Since the first Decoration Day, the cemetery morphed from one of many Civil War burial grounds to a unique place of honor.

Moving migrants from Texas to Democratic strongholds is not new. The Reverse Freedom Rides of the 1960s hold lessons for activists of today.

A new book asks what we lose by simply removing monuments.

African American fiber artists in San Antonio are challenging revisionist histories through artful storytelling.

Survivors of Kissinger's secret war in Cambodia reveal unreported mass killings.

A new book seeks to explain why many Americans, especially but not exclusively in the South, have understood freedom as an entitlement for white people.

People my age are described as baby boomers, but our experiences call for a different label altogether.

On a former plantation in Durham, a land conservancy and two determined sisters are pioneering a model for providing land to Black gardeners and farmers.

For over 20 years, Dr. Albert Kligman experimented on incarcerated men at Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison. Those who profited have yet to redress the harm.

In 1928, two Americans invented a large metal breathing device that would become synonymous with polio treatment.

The members of the Indiana Women’s Prison History Project scrutinize official records not only for what they reveal, but also for what they omit.

English colonists claimed they wanted to make peace with the Powhatans, then offered them tainted wine.

The Robinson-Patman Act was supposed to prevent price discrimination — but consumers wanted cheap goods.

A new biography of King emerges at a "critical juncture" for his legacy.

New evidence suggests that Sacagawea had a longer life than most historians have believed — fifty-seven years longer.

Ron DeSantis, who has attacked Florida history lessons and aims to run for president, dismisses slavery in his 2011 book as a “personal flaw” of the Founding Fathers.

Why historians like to think of themselves as detectives.

The deep roots of the latest WGA strike.

Library book bans are fueling national fights and a new Florida lawsuit. But only one case has come before the Supreme Court: Island Trees v. Pico.

Black identity is a reality, not an idea.

US corporations, with universities as one of their stages, masqueraded as agents of Black solidarity while undermining the demands of African liberation movements.

David Hackett Fischer's book "African Founders" should be the starting point for any reflection on the enduring African ­influence on American national ideals.

In the years after the Civil War, printmakers in New York and elsewhere abetted the Lost Cause movement by selling images of false idols.

The blacklist didn’t just ruin many workers’ careers — it narrowed the range of acceptable movies and contributed to the conservatism of the 1950s.

Descendants of enslaved people want land seized by the state returned and recognition of the gold rush’s rich, and largely ignored, Black history.

A new history of the Apple II charts how computers became unavoidable fixtures of our daily lives.

The history of Sephardic Jews challenges our ideas about race in America.

Over a six-year period in the 1970s, physicians sterilized perhaps 25% of Native American women of childbearing age.

How the crunchy stalks went from Victorian centerpiece to ubiquitous football snack.

In the sixties and seventies, fighting for the rights of queer people was considered radical activism. To Jeanne Manford, it was just part of being a parent.

Redistributing land was once central to global development efforts—and it should be today.

More than fifty years after the Fair Housing Act, inequality and segregation persists. What went wrong?

The outcome of a fight to control a nonprofit group could shape the teaching of history in Texas.