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The United States must devise a program that addresses the root causes of migration.

At the time of the Apollo 11 landing, some Americans had reservations about reaching for the stars when troubles swelled on Earth.

The Bush administration thought an elective war would make America safer. Then Katrina hit.

Why the 1969 moon landing signaled the end of the massive American empire of the 20th century.

A century after the 19th Amendment, it’s worth remembering why suffragists fought so hard, and who was fighting against them.

In 1933, the Harlem Renaissance star wrote a powerful essay about race. It has never been published in English—until now.

Reports of the death of nuanced interpretations of the Civil War have been grossly exaggerated.

100 years ago, a tennis player shocked spectators with her “indecent” dress—not for the last time.

On the cancelling of Charles Lindbergh.

There's a lot more than money at stake in the impending auction.

After a Rio Grande flood shifted a 437-acre strip of land from Mexico to Texas, the area was the site of a long border dispute.

In a new book, Lisa Duggan spotlights the Randian spirit of what she calls the “Neoliberal Theater of Cruelty.”

Only in the science fiction genre can one compare an alien to a woman.

Lost letters between Jane Addams and her best friend leave questions for historians,

How could Armstrong, born indisputably black at the height of Jim Crow and raised poor, be so happy?

From 1896 until the 1930s, showmen would travel the country staging wrecks at state fairs.

Public Enemy's "Fight the Power," featured in Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing," embodied many sentiments of a black generation.

The weddings made possible by local government and broad legal language.

The long and complicated life of Kipling's famous poem.

According to the recent discoveries, civil rights activist, Dorothy Cotton, and King had a close romantic relationship.

The right turned Linda Taylor into a bogeyman. But her real life was much more complicated.

Gravely inaccurate 19th-century depictions of the destruction of Rome are used to illustrate parallels between Rome and the U.S.

25 years later, what does Gump mean?

The abuse of data from the 1940 census has fueled fears about a citizenship question on the 2020 census form.

"Inevitably, the age of national bootblacks and national oyster houses and national blacksmiths produced national history books."

As we debate reparations, we need to get the facts right.

Understanding the rivalry between England and the Netherlands is crucial to understanding that between New England and New York.

The expansion of banks like Citigroup into Cuba, Haiti, and beyond reveal a story of capitalism built on blood, labor, and race.

A 1918 dispatch from a Yiddish newspaper documents the experiences of women legally voting for the first time.

The right to public defense wasn’t granted by elites. It was won by socialist-led mass movements.

What would an American dictionary meen for the men and wimmen of America?

Did the movies ever matter? They did to Ronald Reagan.

In 19th-century America, rare old bones were a resource like any other.

The black men who formed America’s original paramedic corps wanted to make history and save lives—starting with their own.

1776 began as a petty squabble among odious and powerful elites. It soon became the lodestar of emancipatory movements everywhere.

The Declaration of Independence advocates for liberty and equality. We would do well to remember those principles today.

The storied African American newspaper will switch to a digital-only platform starting July 11.

Nostalgia or nightmare?

White liberals opposed segregation in the South, but fought tooth-and-nail to keep it in the North.

The declaration's words and sentiments have inspired nations and movements around the world.

If the British had won the Revolutionary War, things might be very different for Native Americans.

White supremacists are co-opting the Middle Ages. Fighting back requires us to tell better, fuller stories about the period.

The Trump administration’s commitment to deterring immigration through cruelty has made horrifying conditions in there inevitable.

What happened to the great defender of Empire when he settled in the States?

Past defeats still scare older Democratic leaders — but not the younger generation.

How the term "blog" came into being.

The seashore used to be a scary place, then it became a place of respite and vacation. What happened?

Here’s how the Black Hills Pioneer reported on major events in the HBO series.

Led by African American women, the strike inspired legislation that affected the entire nation.

Amy Kaplan’s new book examines the pioneering cultural myths that have tied Israel and the United States together.