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The concept of adolescence is a recent invention — and it has been applied unevenly to children from different backgrounds.

Feminists saved the 42nd president of the United States in the 1990s. They were on the wrong side of history.

African American women’s voices from slave narratives to #MeToo.

A look at what caused the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.

An in-depth history of the most important pop innovation of the last 20 years, from Cher’s “Believe” to Kanye West to Migos.

In early America, one's looks, rather than date of birth, often determined one's age.

Few democracies require children to make a daily declaration of fealty to country.

We’re not equipping children to become good citizens.

Du Bois's "Black Reconstruction in America" showed that the black freedom struggle has always been one for radical democracy.

American evangelicals once saw the Soviet Union and other communist countries as the world’s greatest threat to their faith.

The political scientist argues that the desire of identity groups for recognition is a key threat to liberalism.

In so many ways, George Romero's lo-budget horror film defined the year 1968.

In her groundbreaking new book, Monica Muñoz Martinez uncovers the legacy of a brutal past.

Anxieties about the effects of screens on human health are hardly new, but the way the public addresses the problems has changed.

The elusive meaning of privacy in America.

His moralizing accelerated the cultural backlash against him and provided evidence that would be used against him at trial.

An updated prison syllabus in response to the national prison strike of 2018.

A previously unnamed scientist finally gets her due.

Women fighting for the ballot saw German men as backward, ignorant, and less worthy of citizenship than themselves.

"Tanglewood" is the first new Sega Genesis game in years - the latest example of gaming developers looking back, not ahead.

Years after ALEC's Truth In Sentencing bills became law, its Prison Industries Act has quietly expanded prison labor nationwide.

A racial stereotype rears its ugly head.

Remembering Castle Garden, a nineteenth-century immigrant welfare state.

In 1858, Lincoln warned that America could not remain “half slave and half free.” The threat today is as existential as it was before the Civil War.

The Founders designed a government that would resist mob rule. They didn’t anticipate how strong the mob could become.

Where's the country music on Pitchfork's Best Albums of the 1980s?

One diagnosis fits all! If you're a woman.

Of all the places to discover a lost city, this pleasing little community seems an unlikely candidate.

Allegations that Nixon beat his wife have circulated for years without serious examination by those who covered his presidency.

Gaming in the shadow Charlottesville's "Unite the Right" rally.

Considering the history of street harassment in light of #MeToo.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

These rare survivors of early African-American art can illuminate much about our difficult history.

Teachers and students love "A People’s History of the United States." But it’s just as limited as the textbooks it replaces.

Current debates about breastfeeding highlight the political nature of changing cultural norms about motherhood.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

In early 1968, the activist planned a massive protest in the nation’s capital.

A collection of more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 photos of former slaves.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

Take a deep dive into this drawing by famed illustrator Thomas Nast.

Olaudah Equiano, native of Africa, survivor of the Middle Passage and enslavement, tells his story.

What one scholar learned from writing an American history consisting of 100 maps.

How a cheesy joke from the 1830s became one of the most widely spoken words in the world.

The great financial catastrophe of our times is still badly misunderstood, despite its grotesque consequences.

Giving in millions has a way of erasing harm done in billions.

Might a new approach to war memorials keep us out of future unnecessary wars?

Histories of the Jews reveal a lot about the times in which they were written.

With democracy in peril, Du Bois reminds us of the long fight to protect it.