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Louis Fatio seized an opportunity to recount his version of his life—a story that had been distorted and used by white Americans for various political purposes.

With bar graphs and pie charts, the sociologist and his Atlanta students demonstrated Black excellence in the face of widespread discrimination.

Although the exhibit closed in 1992, the Dickson Mounds Museum is still grappling with its legacy.

Plants and settlers take root in a new mythology of Arizona.

The story of Swami Vivekananda and his time in America.

Native editors are fighting back.

Distortions in Western history have long obscured the region’s Black communities.

Reversing the rising tide of femicide requires understanding its deep roots in the United States.

A relic of '80s scofflaw gun culture is still lethal.

How the Caribbean colony contributed to America's fight for independence.

A chatbot billed as an educational tool falsely portrays historical figures, including dictators and Nazis, as apologetic for their crimes.

Americans disparaged the British as arsonists. But the rebels fought with fire too.

U.S.-Iranian relations, the interrelationship between Iranian development and the global oil market, and the future of economic warfare.

On Sept. 30, 1968, the first Boeing 747 rolled off the assembly line. Some 55 years later, the last one has left its factory.

Alec Nevala-Lee’s new biography assesses the complicated legacy of an architect better known for his image than his work.

A century ago, it was once motivated by the goal of economic reorganization.

After Robert Opel dashed naked across the stage in 1974, he ran for President and settled into the gay leather scene.

Historians must read every imperfect archive with a particular perspicacity, to uncover the histories so many archives were meant to suppress or erase.

Although freed from slavery, Louis Congo's job as public executioner ensured him a life as a pawn of French officials and retaliation from those he disciplined.

Understanding puzzles as agents of disorder runs counter to a common interpretation that associates puzzles with the quest for order.

University faculty nationwide rebuke Ron DeSantis's recent decision to ban the course from Florida schools.

Christopher Rufo's polemical attacks against Critical Race Theory are not a new phenomenon. Public schools have long been a battlefield for ideological warfare.

Melvyn Leffler’s book on the roots of the Iraq invasion demonstrates the pitfalls of excessive trust in one’s sources, especially when they're top policymakers.

Militia groups have long used Waco as a rallying cry. But it was never the example of whiteness under siege that they invoke.

The untold story of the private equity investors behind Mifeprex—and their escalating legal battle to cash in post-Dobbs.

Instead of using the Underground Railroad as a route north, thousands of enslaved Black people fled to communities in the South.

Lee's life and work suggested that Asian American identity did not possess—and did not need—any underlying reality beyond solidarity.

Hyperindividualism has infiltrated our economic, social, and political landscape.

How the Supreme Court has weaponized the Fourteenth Amendment and Brown v. Board of Education against antiracism.

Ambition, insecurity, and the perils of independence.

In the late 19th century, Wells connected lynchings to the economic interests and status anxieties of white southerners.

First-person accounts of those scarred in many ways by the era’s violence suggest Reconstruction did not fail, it was overthrown by violence.

A new book reverses the narrative of the Age of Discovery, which has long evoked the ambitions of Europeans looking to the Americas rather than vice versa.

The argument that corporations have historically been a force for good—and can be again—is wishful thinking.

The roll call for the names of 74 African Americans sold into slavery by Nathan Bedford Forrest in Memphis was solemn.

The shadow of Samuel Adams, a crafty and government-wary revolutionary, lingers over the January 6 Capitol insurrection.

Which songs will future generations use to characterize the decade?

When the descendants of a 1918 massacre applied for a historical marker, they learned that not everyone wants to remember one of Texas’ darkest days.

Reflecting on Pat Buchanan's legacy.

In the 19th century, food science promised to improve the health, robustness, and productivity of humankind.

At the time, ideas of race in America were quite literally black and white. But a few meters of cloth changed the way some people of color were treated.

The experiences of Michael and Zoharah Simmons show that the fight against the carceral state is embedded in a larger project of building a just world.

Catastrophic accidents at power plants have heightened fears about the safety of nuclear energy, but it's getting renewed attention as a way to fight global warming.

We're born with a hunger for connection with our ancestors – both biological and spiritual.

Decades after its release, the haunted highways and haunted characters of the Boss’s largely acoustic masterpiece still haunt the American psyche.

How the U.S. became a global laggard in chemical regulation.

An 1859 painting by Eastman Johnson depicted enslaved people in a D.C. courtyard. Intended to humanize them, it was coopted by slavery defenders.

Despite their failure to achieve their ultimate goal, the IWW and its resilient members can be examples for the resurgent unions of today.

Official decisions about military intervention and executive power are often based on outdated historical interpretations.

To most 21st century Americans, Hawaii is a tropical paradise. But how that paradise became part of the United States is a long, complex, and often dark story.