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Cartoon of Meriweather Lewis, William Clark, and Sacagawea looking out over a ridge.

Looking Back at Lewis and Clark

The explorers’ crossing of the continent is America’s most famous camping trip. What was it all for?
by Caleb Crain via The New Yorker
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on May 25, 2026
Illustration of a mob of white men burning down a building.

What a White-Supremacist Coup Looks Like

In Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1898, the victory of racial prejudice over democratic principle and the rule of law was unnervingly complete.
by Caleb Crain via The New Yorker
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on April 20, 2020
Teachers on strike in a picket line.

State of the Unions

What happened to America’s labor movement?
by Caleb Crain via The New Yorker
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on August 26, 2019

The Theory That Justified Anti-Gay Crime

Fifty years after Stonewall, the gay-panic defense seems absurd. But, for decades, it had the power of law.
by Caleb Crain via The New Yorker
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on June 26, 2019
Armed miners at the military headquarters of the United Mine Workers, in Trinidad, Colorado, the month of the Ludlow massacre.

There Was Blood

The Ludlow massacre revisited.
by Caleb Crain via The New Yorker
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on January 12, 2009
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