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It made it impossible to limit the size and scope of the federal government. Conservatives need to recognize that.

Eighty years ago, MGM’s sparkly pink rendering of Glinda expanded American pop culture’s definition of free-flying women.

A review of two new books on the postwar origins of “the Environment.”

A new book makes the case.

An historian discovers the portraits of two women all bound up in the pages of a 19th-century book.

Discussions of eugenics and other fascistic ideas in American history tend to provoke the defense that they never took root. So why do they keep flowering?

Yuppies attract cafes and amenities to gentrifying neighborhoods. They also spark rising rents — and even violence.

The "new history of capitalism" cuts class politics at the expense of history.

A profile of UVA graduate R.T.W. Duke Jr., who presided over the 1924 dedication of the Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville.

Charles Schulz used his culturally monolithic comic strip to advocate for public health. But his approach had some serious shortcomings.

What the chaos aboard Flight 93 on 9/11 looked like to the White House and the fighter pilots prepared to ram the plane's cockpit.

This fall 500 Louisianans, in 19th-century attire, will re-create America’s largest plantation uprising.

The murals have been denounced as demeaning, and defended as an exposé of America’s racist past. Both sides miss the point.

Why the Jim Crow-era debate between the African-American leader and a ridiculous, Nazi-loving racist isn’t as famous as Lincoln-Douglas.

There's room for the haute and folk traditions but the market-driven style taking over is the most problematic.

Rural educator Frank Cyr had the vision and pull to force the nation to standardize the color of the ubiquitous vehicle.

In 2002, still reeling from the dot-com crash, Google realized they’d been harvesting a very valuable raw material — your behavior.

After the television cameras went away, a North Carolina city debated the future of its toppled Confederate statue.

The dark side of the medical industrial complex.

Boris Johnson is suspending Parliament for five weeks. That couldn't happen in the United States.

Considering the treatment of Confederate veterans in light of the treatment of undocumented immigrants in the South today.

On September 18, 1977, Youngstown, Ohio, received a blow that it has never recovered from.

And good for him. Nations have always competed for strategically placed land and resources.

Far from wallowing in nostalgia, Tarantino is using alternative history to critique conventional Hollywood endings.

Armed with footnotes, we can save democracy.

Charles Postel on the temperance crusade that galvanized the American women's movement.

The New York Times is right that slavery made a major contribution to capitalist development in the United States — just not in the way they imagine.

A review of Roger D. Launius's "Apollo’s Legacy" and Teasel E. Muir-Harmony's "Apollo to the Moon."

It’s surprisingly hard to protect beloved public art.

'It’s about time,' said former doubles partner Angela Buxton.

They stood against Tammany Hall, the centralized presidency, and profligate spending. Today's Right should give them another look.

The ‘reasonable’ right’s persecution rhetoric echoes the Confederacy’s defense of slavery.

The failed canal project that could have saved cities like Youngstown, Ohio.

What would the French Revolution have looked like on Twitter?

Organizers seeking to spark far-reaching work stoppages in the United States can invoke a powerful fact: It has happened before.

Groundbreaking discoveries... but at what cost?

Between 1910 and 1997, black farmers lost about 90% of the land they owned.

Beyond the "casualty numbers and bloodshed," a new history takes into account the "social and structural issues" of disability among soldiers and veterans.

The vice president is best known for killing rival Alexander Hamilton in an 1804 duel. But he was also a notorious rake, historians say.

The first Africans who came to America in 1619 were not ‘enslaved’, they were indentured – and this is a crucial difference.

The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms.

If you like hot chicken, perhaps you’d be interested in knowing where it comes from.

If you think dropping a nuclear bomb into the eye of a hurricane is a bad idea, wait'll you see what they had in mind for the polar ice caps.

W. E. B. Du Bois died on this day in 1963. Few figures were more influential in shaping the struggle against colonialism.

For generations, Southern white elites have been terrified of poor whites and black workers joining hands.

How the U.S. and Soviet government used writers like George Orwell and Boris Pasternak to wage ideological battles during the Cold War.

Japanese American incarceration is the blueprint for today’s migrant detention camps.

As part of its “1619” inquiry into slavery's legacy, The New York Times revives 19th century revisionist history on the founding.

Conservative uproar over the 1619 Project is just the most recent clash in a battle over how we should understand America’s past.

A twist of fate brought the first Africans to Virginia in 1619. See how slavery grew in the U.S. over two centuries.