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Regulators with no democratic accountability keep bailing out banks and big depositors — at the cost of billions to taxpayers.

Is the century-old battle metaphor doing more harm than good to doctors and patients alike?

The first South Asians in British North America.

A never-before-published tranche of letters reveals the white-collar racism that prevented the world’s most popular athlete from selling Fords.

William O. Douglas was a strong advocate of conservation, but as a Supreme Court justice his involvement in such issues was often ethically questionable.

“A brand mascot that jumped off the cereal box”: a TV critic explains the multimedia character Trump created.

Lewis Leary, who volunteered in John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, later inspired poetry by Langston Hughes.

Narrated photo journal of time spent with a family to discuss poverty and race.

Jo Ann Robinson is unfortunately overlooked by history.

When do wars end, and who gets to decide? These deceptively simple questions are actually quite difficult to answer.

Americans have long nurtured mixed feelings about age and aged leaders. Yet during the country’s founding, a young America admired venerable old sages.

The lawsuit against Controlled Digital Lending is about giving corporations—rather than readers, buyers, borrowers, or authors—control over content.

Pennyroyal is a species of mint with purple flowers. It smells like spearmint. And it has been used as an abortifacient for over two thousand years.

Two elephants living at a Miami Beach resort blurred the boundaries between work and leisure in 1920s Florida.

Compared to 19th-century arrivals, today's new arrivals are much more likely to be at the extreme ends of the earnings spectrum.

The secret, often missing ingredient to building a majoritarian progressive coalition.

The idea that non-white immigrants are, generally speaking, new to the Midwest could not be further from the truth.

It is impossible to understand the U.S. without understanding its Indigenous history, writes Ned Blackhawk.

Rumors that enslaved Black New Yorkers were planning a revolt spread across Manhattan even more quickly than the fires for which they were being blamed.

The writings of Emma Goldman entered the public domain. Here is an introduction to Goldman's life and her particular brand of anarchism.

In April 1940, Walter Barnes and His Royal Creolians continued to play to calm the crowd as the Natchez Rhythm Night Club burned.

But “Lunch atop a Skyscraper,” which was taken during the Great Depression, has come to represent the country's resilience, especially on Labor Day.

Black jockeys dominated 19th-century American horse racing, but racism chased them away and undoing that damage has been slow going.

The room at One Police Plaza, jammed to the ceiling with filing cabinets and boxes, and reeking of vinegar, held about 180,000 images ranging from 1914 to 1972.

A century of recorded music has culminated in the infinite archive of streaming platforms. But is it really better for listeners?

Historian Walter Russell Mead has become the favorite Trump whisperer for everyone from Steve Bannon to Tom Cotton.

After Charles Hatfield began his work to wring water from the skies, San Diego experienced its wettest period in recorded history.

Europeans translated the "Chinese Book of Changes" in the nineteenth century, but the philosophy really took off in the West after 1924.

Saddled with debt and forbidden by the crown to mint money, Boston’s Puritans dreamed up a novel monetary system that we still use today.

Gun control is actually an American tradition.

Americans have often been politically divided. But have the divisions over how we recount our history ever been so deep?

Doctors who sterilized Carrie Buck said she was a “feeble-minded” woman whose future offspring posed a threat to society. Her life paints a different picture.

In his new book, historian Nicholas Dagen Bloom chronicles the collapse of public transportation in US cities — and explains who really deserves the blame.

Historians haven't only underestimated the sheer number of underage Union soldiers, they've also overlooked the internal battles those youths provoked.

Ever since the execution of labor radicals in 1886, reactionaries have tried to tarnish their legacy — and leftists have honored them as working-class martyrs.

Ben Smith’s book on the history of the viral internet doesn’t truly reckon with the costs of traffic worship.

A new book considers the possible alternative outcomes of the battles in America's war for independence.

By leading the risky but eventually successful financial operation, Elisha justified his name.

The following is a list of quotations misattributed to George Washington that have been sent to the Mount Vernon Library in recent years.

A recent viral sensation identifies the migration of poor whites as the cause of the problem—letting the rest of us off the hook!

Dwight L. Moody and the 1884 Haymarket Affair offer a look at what happens when Christians side with the wealthy instead of working class.

On the second anniversary of MLK's assassination, political prisoner Martin Sostre wrote a tribute emphasizing his radical disobedience.

Labor activists can learn from the decades-long campaign to undermine their influence by focusing on state-level action to bolster their cause.

1970s United Fruit CEO Eli Black got caught between the warring ideals of ‘social responsibility’ and shareholder gains.

Behind the Oklahoma City bombing and even the January 6th attack was a military-style assault in Texas that galvanized the far right.

As a student in Paris and a photographer at the Washington Times-Herald, the future First Lady worked behind the lens to bring her own ideas into focus.

The book was an especially formal response to the complications of white supremacy, segregated democracy, and civil war.

My hunt for one man across the lonely expanse of the queer past ended in a place I never expected.

First came 'Candid Camera.' Then 'The Truman Show.' Now, a new swath of TV speaks to 21st-century voyeurism.

How did Calle de los Negros get its name? And why did the city raze it in 1887?