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The sudden push to rename a historic school that educated scores of Black students reeks of revenge.

The author of a new book, The Underwater Eye, discusses how film enables audiences "to connect to the most remote environment on the planet: the ocean."

The plight of Poland and the limits of America's revolutionary legacy in Jacksonian foreign policy.

America’s utopian communities have traditionally promoted egalitarianism and alternatives to capitalism. Company towns do the opposite.

Notions of women during the Civil War center on self-sacrificing nurses, romantic spies, or the home front. However, women charged into battle, too.

Decades of failed promises have left voters apathetic or pessimistic.

From the Triangle Factory Fire to Shein, fast fashion can’t escape ethical quandaries.

She risked everything to escape a life of poverty and become one of the nation's most read columnists, while advocating for the advancement of women.

The impact of Black ball players' fight for higher compensation and labor protections in the ‘70s is felt today.

Sha-Rock claims her place as the first female MC in hip-hop history.

The 2003 invasion of Iraq was no turning point. It was a slow-burning tale of how Britain and the US armed a nation, and then betrayed it.

These scientists spent weeks underwater doing research—and convincing NASA women could also go into space.

An investigation identified hundreds of artifacts linked to indicted or convicted traffickers. What does this mean for the future of museums?

In his final book, David Graeber looks at an experiment in radical democracy and piratical justice in Madagascar.

We've heard about Rosa Parks and her crucial role, but Parks was just one of many women involved.

A new book offers the first full-length biography of newspaper editor, labor leader and minister Samuel Ringgold Ward.

African American church graveyards are disappearing. Can they be saved before it’s too late?

The Nixon White House Tapes tell a different story.

Most Americans now grasp that violence was essential to the functioning of slavery, but a new book excavates the brutality of everyday Black life in the Jim Crow South.

In his history of the John Birch Society, Matthew Dallek says Republicans allowed the extreme fringe to “eventually cannibalize the entire party.”

When ranchers began reporting incidents of mutilated cattle, the ensuring panic fed both conspiracy theories and a growing cynicism about the government.

What can a visualization of population growth in cities and towns in the Northeast tell us about different moments in the region's economic geography?

Despite captivating the nation with their athleticism every March, collegiate basktball players remain an exploited labor force for the profit of the NCAA.

The John Birch Society pushed a darker, more conspiratorial politics in the ’50s and ’60s — and looms large over today’s GOP.

A new book argues that the real history of the league is one of strife between Black labor and white ownership.

The relentless radicalism of Benjamin Lay.

The second wife of Thomas Edison, she viewed domestic labor as a science, calling herself a "home executive."

The decline of the John Birch Society offers possible strategies for containing the MAGA movement.

The story of Morris Slater, aka Railroad Bill, prompts us to ask how the legend of the "American outlaw" changes when race is involved.

By mass-marketing social aspiration, the brand toed the line between exclusivity and accessibility—and established prep as America’s visual vernacular.

In Eatonville, one of the few Black towns to have survived incorporation, locals are fighting to preserve 100 acres of land from being sold to developers.

The flawed logic that produced the war is alive and well.

Remembering what the Iraq War was like, 20 years later.

Twenty years later, I am living through the making of the Iraq War as history.

Signed February 2, 1848, the treaty compelled Mexico to cede 55 percent of its territory, bringing more than 525,000 square miles under US sovereignty.

Two former CIA officials weigh in: "It's time to call him what he is: 'A liar.'"

Police champions have long wielded new technology as a tool to project authority and legitimacy, while deflecting criticism.

Mushroom clouds, duct tape, Judy Miller, Curveball. Recalling how Americans were sold a bogus case for invasion.

A new history examines Silicon Valley, Palo Alto, the West Coast's settler ideology, and recent turbulence in the world of tech.

It was 1872 and the commander-in-chief kept riding his horse too fast through the streets of Washington.

Émile Coué, a French apothecary, started an “autosuggestion” craze that was the biggest thing in America in the early 1920s, practiced by millions every day.

So where were those angsty kids?

What the political fight over a photo teaches us about the power of art, grassroots activism and images.

How the mythologizing of the Union Army’s Irish Brigade helped dispel anti-Irish sentiment.

The frightening character who appears amid US union disputes can be traced back to a single factory, which wasn’t unionized.

In the 1970s, a family farm movement famously mobilized in “tractorcades” at the Capitol to try to prevent farm foreclosures and keep farmers on the land.

The Los Angeles Times will no longer use "internment" to describe the mass incarceration of 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry during World War II.

The rise and fall and rise of the traditional St. Patrick's Day meal.

Scholars agree the song, endowed with its deep history of Black pride, speaks to the universal human condition.

If studios can again harness the income from exhibition, we may see a return of traditional vertical integration.