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Many take the separation between science and politics for granted, but this view of science has its own political origins.

Clyde Bellecourt taught Native people that colonizing society is weak because of its sense of superiority.

Celebrating the Federal Reserve as a cockpit for economic steering conceals the reality of where power lies today.

The US government broke up AT&T's monopoly over the telecom industry through an antitrust case in 1984, leading to a transformation of communication.

She’s mostly remembered for one famous speech. Her actual legacy is far greater than that.

Female nurses served their country domestically and abroad by caring for soliders striken by the influenza pandemic.

George Kennan made hierarchy seem seductive.

The history of DIY transition offers one path toward what might come after, or in the place of, state-sanctioned care.

Why the truth is crucial, even it it means losing an American Indian hero.

Since the 1960s, border enforcement and deterrence policies have made migrants vulnerable to abuse and exploitation.

As two warring bone hunters sought to destroy each other, they laid the foundations for our knowledge of dinosaurs.

What does a statue dedicated to mothers reveal about women’s rights?

For nearly a century, Americans have been throwing the term around—without agreeing what that means.

The initial promise of Mexican factories in the 1960s gave way to impoverished communities and capital flight in search of higher profits.

In the late 1960s, Baltimore began demolishing Black neighborhoods to make room for an ill-fated expressway. Will the harm from the Highway to Nowhere ever be repaired?

Despite decades of Indigenous activism and resistance, UC Berkeley has failed to return the remains of thousands of Native Americans to tribes.

What is an industry-made disaster, and what is caused by natural factors like weather?

For members of the Hip Hop generation who came of age during the Black Power era, “reality rap” was an entry into the political power of Black history.

Norris, who dubbed herself the "Queen of Bohemia," exposed the injustices of post-Gilded Age New York City—by going undercover.

The U.S. Army's contributions to meteorology.

As AI drum machines embrace humanising imperfections, what does this mean for ‘real’ drummers and the soul of music?

I thought having a rat czar would be an easy win for the city. I was wrong.

Walmart did not invent or import the idea. In fact, it was among the last of the discount department stores to experiment with the concept.

1796, the first contested presidential election.

Loss of control over knowledge of the female body cemented women’s status as second-class citizens.

Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy publicly apologized after restaurants refused to serve Black representatives of newly independent nations.

The rise in undergraduate degrees was supposed to increase prosperity and cut economic inequality. Biden’s student debt relief plan proves otherwise.

Examining slavery, Indian removal, and state policies regulating mobility to trace the constitutional origins of immigration restriction in the 1800s.

The partnership between rabbis and labor that delivered the two-day weekend.

Women’s rights activism has shaped America for the better throughout our history, so why should colleges be banned from teaching it?

It is worth digging a bit deeper into the family matters between John and Elizabeth.

Was the nineteenth-century Midwest “the most advanced democratic society that the world had seen”?

In 1908, Korean nationalists assassinated a pro-Japanese American diplomat in front of the Ferry Building.

Throughout its history, the technology sector has been dependent on the federal budget.

Decades before paleontology’s formal establishment, Black and Native Americans discovered—and correctly identified—millennia-old fossils.

After years of opposition and delay, Waco finally has posted a historical marker about the 1916 murder of Jesse Washington.

And how streaming is changing it again.

Soon after he was elected, Abraham Lincoln received a rather bizarre letter.

Efforts in early America to educate Black children offer us a template for addressing educational inequality today.

The top educational priorities in the Sunshine State were apparently reading, writing, and anti-communism.

Russia’s recent nuclear threats have revived Cold War animosity with roots in the Cuban missile crisis.

Fertilizers filled with the nutrient boosted our ability to feed the planet. Today, they’re creating vast and growing dead zones in our lakes and seas.

The main issue they were debating was how democratic a representative body should be. And their answer was “not very democratic at all.”

How conservatives made him their icon and distorted his ideas.

Some essential lessons from an earlier culture war.

Decorating graves with flowers, from a Civil War grassroots ritual of remembrance to a national tradition honoring all military dead.

A new history explores the emergence of international economic institutions that continue to wield immense influence over the domestic politics of many states.

How Black landowners in eastern North Carolina are recovering generational wealth lost to industry encroachment.

The contemporary rise of Christian nationalism in the US is a reactionary response to the country’s liberalization over the past half-century.

How a landmark Supreme Court decision was shaped by the racist idea that poor children can’t learn.