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Through six decades, gunmakers and advertisers leveraged social and cultural changes to broaden the AR-15′s appeal.

Rustin’s assessment of the lay of the political land was predicated on a no-nonsense understanding of the radicalism of the moment.

How the moons of Mars and the death of a president altered the late nineteenth-century Washington, DC, landscape.

The sacrifice of Captain Noah Grant, during the French and Indian War, may have influenced Ulysses S. Grant, as he decided to rejoin the U.S. Army in 1861.

The inventor, who baked the first batch of the iconic gum 40 years ago, talks about the genesis of an American rite of passage.

Infrastructural projects should be understood in terms of whose lives they make more livable—and the futures they enable or foreclose.

The foundational document was flawed from the start.

The waterway opened up the heartland to trade, transforming small hamlets into industrial centers.

President Warren G. Harding paid not one, but two women to remain quiet about their affairs with him.

Can it be produced without controversy?

Taking up arms against slavery, the famous novelist foreshadowed the vexed role of the white woman activist today.

The first women to serve in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps helped improve military medicine and expand women’s opportunities to officially serve in the armed forces.

The tensions between the Manhattan District Attorney and President George H.W. Bush.

This demonym will allow other Englishers to be recognized for their own locales.

The ‘methods and collections’ of genealogists are political because they have a great deal in common with genealogy as a way of doing history.

Almost a century before mixing martial arts became popularized, the 26th President was boxing, wrestling, and training judo in the White House.

How Cesar Chavez married faith and ideology in his landmark farmworkers' march.

In the 1830s, they brought lemons, commercial dynamism, and a willingness to fight elites.

Four changes are especially important when we try to measure changes in the poverty rate since 1964.

The demand of antislavery activists for accused fugitives to be guaranteed a jury trial was an implicit recognition of Black citizenship.

The hidden history of Utopian Socialism and its close relationship with cultures of esoteric spirituality in the nineteenth-century United States. 

How urban planners and suburban shoppers responded when “the storage of dead vehicles on roadways” became a nuisance to street users.

Oliver North and his cronies in the Contra support operations put in motion a clandestine counter-intelligence apparatus to disrupt the flow of information.

An immigrant born to working-class activism stands up to an NYPD reborn in the CIA's image.

Black femininity was always considered a hard sell in Hollywood, but Hattie McDaniels and Dorothy became the perfect women to peddle racist stereotypes.

A conversation with historian David Hollinger about the rise of evangelicalism, the decline of mainline Protestantism, and the nature of America's secularism.

The turn-of-the-century literary canon, using data from college syllabi.

Gary Gerstle’s new book tackles important questions of the last century about democracy, economy, and war. But it fails to answer a basic question.

The Great Epizootic, an equine flu in 1872-1873, infected most U.S. horses. Streetcars and mail delivery stopped across the country while fires raged.

A new book tells the definitive history of an Alabama community founded by survivors of the slave trade.

The Atlantic Monthly reported on newly found love letters between Lincoln and Ann Rutledge, his supposed sweetheart. Even biographers fell for the hoax.

Major League Soccer – which starts the 2023 season on Feb. 25 – is deemed the most diverse league in the US. Its predecessor, the NASL, led the way.

Native farming practices and settler-colonial imaginations in the video game "Empire: Total War."

There is an illusion at the centre of British history that conceals the role of slavery in building the nation. Here’s how I fell for it.

From birthright freedom to birthright citizenship.

Why the first prizefight at Dodger's Stadium would become its last (outside of fiction).

On 50 years of Thomas Pynchon’s “Gravity’s Rainbow.”

Women’s economic labor was essential to state function.

And historians aren't exactly helping in the Harvard case currently before the Supreme Court.

Two new books ask us to shift our attention away from the white vigilantes of Jim Crow and instead focus on what it meant for the survivors.

Spurred by the pandemic, new groups of workers are pushing to form unions in activism not seen since the 1930s.

Raising awareness helped turn cancer from a stigmatized disease into a treatable one. But it hasn’t made affording that treatment any easier.

The death of mystery writer Edgar Allan Poe is its own mystery. But new research suggests election fraud may have contributed to his demise in Baltimore.

It's a myth that the Founders opposed the regulation of deadly weapons.

Even after Wong Kim Ark successfully took his case to the Supreme Court 125 years ago, Asian Americans struggled to receive recognition as U.S. citizens.

International arms dealer Samuel Cummings blanketed the Western Hemisphere with guns.

What we fight about when we fight about schools.

How the WWE chairman warped pro wrestling all the way to WrestleMania 39.

The AR-15 thrives in times of tension and tragedy. This is how it came to dominate the marketplace – and loom so large in the American psyche.

Scott Trust to invest in decade-long programme of restorative justice after academic research into newspaper’s origins.