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The West is using the wrong analogy for Russia’s invasion—and worsening the outcome.

A sweeping new history weaves personal, intellectual, and spiritual narratives into a book that reminds us of the potential of the socialist movement.

He fell from favor after the disaster of the Iraq War. But he was always biding his time.

During the cold war, football’s violence became precisely its point.

In this case, freaking out makes even less sense because spy balloons are historically a sign of weakness.

Covert U.S. intrusions into Chinese airspace were common for decades.

China’s balloon, whatever its purpose, became a physical and observable reminder of the often-invisible work nations do to keep tabs on one another.

Stephen Casper, a medical historian, argues that the danger of C.T.E. used to be widely acknowledged. How did we unlearn what we once knew?

How Bernardo de Galvez turned the tide against British supremacy on the continent.

Texas’s elite police force has long played the hero in film and television, although the reality is far more complex.

The story of David Ross Locke's travels to Western Europe.

The march toward revolution in America coincided with a smallpox epidemic. True freedom now meant freedom from disease as well.

The historical record reveals the real circumstances that led to the improbable capture of eleven British ships.

Lillian Gilbreth, who died just over fifty years ago, saw that the worker could not be understood as a cog in the machine.

How was the famous prisoner uprising and its aftermath depicted in the prison press? The American Prison Newspapers collection on JSTOR has answers.

The result has been reactionary, often racist intellectual defenses of inequality.

Keaton had been on the stage longest, risen the highest, fallen the furthest, and left the most indelible legacy.

A fatal combination of fear, power, and hubris.

Always a dealmaker, then-senator LBJ negotiated with segregationists to pass a bill that cautiously advanced racial equality.

The NFL's control over entertainment.

We’ve been fighting over gas stoves for decades.

From Underground Railroad conductors who risked everything to present-day residents who show kindness to travelers.

The type of quiet, personal, informed diplomacy advocated by George Kennan can reduce tensions with China and Russia.

Revisiting "When Affirmative Action Was White," nearly two decades on.

Conservatives want to make students patriotic. Instead, they exacerbate historical illiteracy.

The region has been in the disruption business for nearly 150 years.

The government of Guam has appointed a Commission on Decolonization, but U.S. control means that all of the island’s options have substantial downsides.

A glaring portrait of the human cost of law enforcement officers who claim to be above the law.

Remembering the mixed reception is key to understanding the complexities of our history and the persistence of racism today.

A landscape has come into being through a constellation of resistances to these strategies of control.

A helpful way to think about the JFK assassination, and political assassinations more generally, is to be more Dragnet about it than discursive.

How dreams of other worlds, above and below our own, reflect the unfulfilled promises of Emancipation.

In a covenantal nation like the United States, words are the very ligaments that hold the body together, and what words we choose become everything.

In 1970, an all-white state commission thought Mississippi was "not yet ready" to see a racially integration depicted on television. The backlash was swift.

The rise of the right-wing paranoid fantasy, egged on by Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene, reflects deep currents in American politics.

As the 20th century’s preeminent scholar-activist on race, W.E.B. Du Bois would not be surprised by modern-day attempts at whitewashing American history.

Japan sent nearly 10,000 bomb-bearing balloons toward the U.S. during World War II. One killed six people.

What the differences between Hiram Fong and Nikki Haley tell us about changes to the GOP.

Immigrant housewives and the riots that shook New York City.

The president's Nantucket nuclear fallout shelter could become a National Historic Landmark—but efforts to preserve its history have stalled.

How modern songwriting evolved into a game of aggressive credit—even for the people who didn’t technically do the composing.

The crusade against civil liberties during World War I.

From Stanford to Silicon Valley, a small town in California spread tech’s gospel of data and control.

An interactive chart reveals how the words presidents use reflect the twists and turns of American history.

The state wants to severely limit what professors can say in the classroom.

Conservatives and the GOP have mounted a decadeslong legal fight to turn the clock back on the political gains of the civil rights movement.

A feud between two nineteenth-century German-language newspapers showed that immigrant communities embraced a diversity of interests and beliefs.

The story of George Jackson and his radical politics that challenged the American Government in an age of political repression.

Freedom Summer in the segregationist heart of the Deep South.

The retail giant’s mail-order business reigned supreme for more than a century, offering everything from quack cures to ready-to-build homes.