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A new logistics center in Revere tells a familiar story and poses the question: how inextricable is land use from the land itself?

“National security” and the history of US export controls.

A new history of American politics examines the past and future of political realignments.

By removing Reps. Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell and Ilhan Omar, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy would remove obstacles to his agenda.

When Hollywood went down Argentine way.

The concept of geopolitics comes from German and Russian attempts to explain defeat and reverse loss of influence.

This report clarifies five issues commonly raised in debt limit debates and explores some open questions.

Gene Tong, a popular herbal-medicine doctor in Los Angeles, was hanged by a mob during one of the worst mass lynchings in American history.

We can’t blame Joe McCarthy for this one. (Though he was a fan.)

Long before monuments to enslavers were removed, lawmakers decided to relocate a scandalous, half-naked depiction of George Washington in a toga.

Similar bars have been marshaled against Central Americans since the late 1980s — severely undermining access to asylum.

The brothers from Barbados who built Negro League stadiums, and community efforts to create historic markers for them.

The unconventional origins of the modern antiwar movement.

The original Los Angeles Chinatown, now known as “Old Chinatown,” developed in the 1860s.

The Biden administration’s expanded use of Title 42 to expel asylum seekers will take a toll.

My mother’s part in the 1970 repeal of New York’s abortion law is a lesson for today’s activists: all politics is local.

Discovery of Phillis Wheatley's earliest known elegy in a commonplace book gives us important insights into her early life and how her work circulated.

A 1940s Red Cross rule, which racially segregated blood, propped up notions of racial difference and Black inferiority.

Netflix’s “The Pale Blue Eye” portrays Edgar Allan Poe as a young West Point cadet. Here’s the true story of his brief, failed military career.

Whole states of the Union owe their very existence to nothing more nation-building than 19th-Century pols’ wanting to add new senators to one side of the aisle.

Into the 1980s, the heart of the California food revolution was also a hub of French fine dining. Why did the goat cheese and sundried tomatoes win?

The latest battlefield in the GOP’s “anti-woke” crusade.

Planners of the Interstate Highway System ignored warnings that they were damaging poor Black and Latino neighborhoods.

Four tapes mysteriously donated reveal uncertainty within the death chamber—and indicate the prison neglected to record evidence during an execution gone wrong.

The machine breaks down: A brief history of Tammany Hall.

APAAS, Florida, and history.

Success moving forward requires building a more inclusive movement than what existed during the Roe v. Wade era.

Confederate monuments helped to erase the history of those white and black southerners who remained loyal and were willing to give their lives to save the United States.

Treaties with Britain, the Confederated tribes, and Spain revealed that America was still dependent on the greater geopolitics of the Atlantic World.

In practice, aggressive congressional investigations of the intelligence community require consistent levels of public support.

Religious conservatives see “anti-eugenic” laws as the most promising path to establish a federal ban on abortion.

The justices’ decision not to hear challenges to the explicitly racist Insular Cases is part of a long tradition of favoring process over substance.

What will be the legacy of the Black Arts Movement? Ishmael Reed reflects on the transformation and growth of Black arts since the 1960s.

Hundreds of classic cartoons vanished without warning. How can you raise your kids on favorites you can’t access anymore?

In 1877, one million workers went on strike and fought police and federal troops in cities across America.

Heirs to an iconic fortune sought out a wealth manager who would assuage their progressive consciences. Now their dispute is exposing dynastic secrets.

A disastrous oil spill in Alaska and massive rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico revealed a pattern of unsettled standards and inconsistent oversight.

How the CIA tried to trick the Soviets with sex dolls (but ultimately got screwed).

The school was funded by colonial taxation of tobacco grown by forced labor on colonized Indian lands.

History and controversy in the architecture of the Latter-day Saints.

A Steel City bibliography of Pittsburgh.

They were made by Alexander Graham Bell and his fellow researchers between 1881 and 1892

Americans helped spread a right-wing version of evangelical Christianity in Brazil. Now it has played a role in an insurrection.

Looking back at half a century of truth-telling and rebelling.

Any critical take on public monuments today must confront the reality that public lands are themselves colonized lands.

Stephanie St. Clair, who gained notoriety as a criminal entrepreneur and a fashion icon, was a powerful Black woman able to wrest control in a world run by men.

Robert Greenstein isn’t a household name. But his career lobbying for the poor has changed the lives of millions of Americans.

New technology has facilitated the transportation of oil, but spills remain a risk.

Political scientist Richard Bensel explains the feedback loops between policy commitments of political elites and the regional distribution of political power.

A historian’s journey into the relationship between Alexander Darnes and Edmund Kirby Smith starts with a surprising eulogy.