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The policy of "prevention through deterrence" has been deadly.

When did people start using the phrase to refer to a group of two or more?

Charlottesville and the UVA were enthusiastic participants in the national resurgence of public and celebratory white supremacy.

“Not religious” has become a specific American identity—one that distinguishes secular, liberal whites from the conservative, evangelical right.

At a ceremony Wednesday, leaders remembered the Ponca chief whose court case established that Native Americans were people.

When modern conservatives associate activists of color with communism, they’re drawing on a racist history that goes back over 100 years.

The Lakota, like other groups, see themselves as a sovereign people. Can Indigenous sovereignty survive colonisation?

Kehinde Wiley unveils his new equestrian statue in Times Square. In December, it will be installed in Richmond, with those of Civil War generals nearby.

The political rumblings beneath his 1969 album, "Hot Buttered Soul."

Awaiting a Senate trial might curtail Trump's worst behaviors.

Emma Tenayuca and the San Antonio Pecan Shellers Strike of 1938.

Reflections on the centennial of America’s greatest sports scandal.

Well before Watergate broke, John Ashbrook waged a primary campaign that the Right took very seriously.

The GM strike recalls the Flint sit-down strikes of 1936-7: a profit-hungry corporation, a fed-up workforce, and workers' willingness to take militant action.

The complicated privilege of forming a new constituency.

The latest struggle to define America's founding charter will define the country for generations to come.

Martin Scorsese's new film is premised on a confession that is not credible.

In America’s bloody history of racial violence, the little-known Elaine Massacre may rank as the deadliest.

Emory professor Michael Bellesiles resigned in the midst of a political firestorm. He still stands by his work.

In 1790, as the First Amendment was being ratified, George Washington made a promise to American Jews.

A new book explores the tangled politics behind a global addiction.

How Charles Schulz's classic strip shaped the comic medium.

The structure will span 300 feet and is expected to be unveiled on the Fairfax City campus in 2021.

A new book discusses the black nationalism at the heart of Thomas’s conservative jurisprudence.

Since the founding, Congress has supported democracy and public integrity by protecting those who spoke up about abuses of power.

In defining the scope of impeachment, they had in mind the alleged crimes of Warren Hastings.

Long before President Donald Trump, there was President John Tyler.

The Nixon impeachment proceedings and their parallels with the Trump-Ukraine scandal.

How one of America's original Bernie Bros became an outspoken critic of the left.

What a photograph reveals about the lives of young black women at the turn of the century.

Supporters of traditional narratives are fighting to keep their grip on the public imagination.

For decades, conspiracy theorists have clung to the fiction that thousands of soldiers are being held captive in Asia.

How three late 19th century equality movements failed to promote equality.

DC statehood would be a modest ploy compared with the mass admission of underpopulated western territories.

An upcoming Supreme Court case will test the "not guilty by reason of insanity" plea.

Why some journalists amassed reams of data and published thousands of pages to promote their home cities.

A just-discovered eyewitness account provides startling new evidence about who fired the shot that sparked the French and Indian War.

Against the backdrop of the Revolution, American Indians recognized a looming threat to their very existence.

Officials in a number of towns and cities are putting up signs to explain the monuments' racist history.

It was a setup: a stratagem worthy of wily Ulysses himself.

The world’s largest monument is decades in the making and more than a little controversial.

The pitfalls and the potential of cryptocurrency are explored in three recent publications.

It was a struggle to even get the president to go to a game.

Monuments ask us to look at the past, but how they do it exposes crucial aspects of the present.

Michael W. Twitty on the changing tides of plantation interpretation.

America was built by the labor of stolen African bodies, on stolen Native American lands.

A Jewish American reflects on a life spent amidst the ghosts of the American South and the former capital of the Reich.

What happened to America’s labor movement?

When Congress gave the Secretary of Labor discretion over any immigrant “likely to become a public charge,” they weren’t expecting someone like Frances Perkins.

Looking to Louisa May Alcott's heroine for inspiration.