Excerpts

Maybe the United States was doomed from the start. And Jean-Jacques Rousseau can explain why.

Bankman-Fried is the latest in a long string of notorious characters who moved their business to the island nation.

Sen. Raphael Warnock and challenger Herschel Walker, both Black, square off in a contest designed to empower White voters.

Governors Ron DeSantis and Gretchen Whitmer took opposite approaches to covid in swing states — but each sailed to reelection.

James K. Polk is considered one of the most successful presidents, even though he did not seek reelection.

The early controversy over whether or not to build the Washington Monument on the National Mall.

Adam Smith and Friedrich Hayek have been through the wringer.

What the story of the Grimke family tells us about race in the United States.

Rail deregulation led to consolidation, price-gouging, and a variant of just-in-time unloading that left no slack in the system.

How stadiums in Qatar connect to a bridge in Kentucky and a dam in West Virginia.

Stories of 1776 and Santa Claus.

How stories of abuse in minority religious communities have influenced American culture.

As organized labor lost strength, the Democratic Party turned to professional-class voters to shore up its base.

The inventory he provided to tax assessors reveals just how profitable privateering was during the Revolutionary era.

In New England, the birds were once hunted nearly to extinction; now they’re swarming the streets like they own the place. Sometimes turnabout is fowl play.

“For those Afro-Caribbean Panamanian who had lived through Panama’s Canal Zone apartheid, Brooklyn segregation probably came as no surprise.”

A real (but mostly forgotten) patent conjures a world that could have been.

The more liberals present originalist arguments, the more they legitimate originalism.

How the rural Arizona border county embodies the political shift in much of America.

In Virginia, the land still owned by the Coles family could yield billions in uranium. Does any of that wealth belong to the descendants of the enslaved?

Christian slavery and white supremacy.

More than 500 historians signed onto this letter of support for the demands of railway workers.

On the of role white supremacist ideas in enforcing slavery in the U.S. in the 19th century.

Predicting a hurricane in nineteenth-century South Carolina.

Some rail unions are resisting government pressure to accept a new employment contract, but history suggests the authorities will keep the trains running.

How Americans lost faith in the possibility of self-government.

“This dramatic display of unity may well inspire the Negro residents of other Southern cities to similar action.”

Olympic track and field athlete reflects on the exclusion of African Americans from professional sports and the role his brother Jackie played in changing that.

Attacking presentism as a mindset of younger scholars doesn’t solve any of the historical profession's problems.

An Olympic runner reflects on segregation and her first experiences with integrated sports events.

How Miss Millie taught the Civil War.

Previously only rumored to exist, the two-minute film depicts a Mardi Gras parade from 1898.

In a 2004 interview, then-President George W. Bush told the 9/11 Commission that he didn't know Al Qaeda had plans to strike the US. Records show otherwise.

The presidency of Theodore Roosevelt and his creation of the modern "performer" president.

Forty years ago this fall, a bunch of feminists released an album. They wanted to change … everything.

The case against Delaware.

What is it like to be a Black police officer, and how does the Black community feel about these officers?

Historians often treat Miller as a foil, but the Father of American Intellectual history retains untapped potential to inspire new modes of inquiry.

A look back at the historian's work suggests that contemporary radicals may be all too invested in the myth of American consensus.

A necessarily abridged perspective of place in Hawai‘i.

The captain of the U.S. soccer team is the latest in a long line of sports stars who have had to wrestle with a complex legacy on the world stage.

In the 1980s, Cold War tensions led to thousands of Cubans languishing in American prisons, unable to be released or repatriated. Uprisings followed.

Northern whites reveal their deep-seated prejudice when a black family moves into their neighborhood.

1913 article, never before republished, about why the charity balls of the rich will never deliver justice for the poor.

The author of a new biography explains how liberals played an important role in enabling Hoover’s antidemocratic crusade.

How a red wave in a solidly blue state helped tip the balance.

An ex-minister named John Lyford arrived at the nascent colony hoping for a fresh start. But he couldn’t escape his past.

Enslaved women’s experiences with war must be extended to include the everyday warfare of slavery.

Wartime production led to environmental and social injustices, polluting land and bodies in ways that continue to shape public policy and race relations.

Can the origins of today’s right be traced to the 1990s?