Excerpts

We've all heard about Black Power, but what about Teacher Power–a teachers' rights movement recently reawakened?

Medical science has always had a lax relationship to consent – especially with the marginalized.

Hidden tattoos captured soldiers' pride and patriotism, but also had a practical use.

Remembering victims of one of the worst workplace disasters in American history.

African American educators became the ‘hidden provocateurs’ who spearheaded the push for racial justice in education.

The road to the violence around statues is paved with hate, lies, and political gamesmanship.

Bighorn sheep and moose learn to migrate from one another. When they die, that generational know-how is not easily replaced.

On the origins of the Lost Cause of the Lowcountry.

The rights we save may be our own.

Today’s battles over Confederate iconography emerge, in part, out of the failure to address the centrality of slavery to the war.

How did the “moral economy”—a concept that once encompassed a radical critique of capitalism—become the province of billionaires?

But they've always been risky.

How and why the First Amendment became a weapon for the right.

Locomotives. Not trains. Locomotives.

Was the author and poet best known for 'The Jungle Book' and 'Kim' truly a racist imperialist?

A digital archive of first-person accounts from the turn of the 19th century chronicling an unusual display of religious ecstasy.

Because that moment isn’t quite what we remember.

How one 28-year-old feminist bluffed her way into running a copy department and made rock journalism a legitimate endeavor.

A favorite anecdote about the origins of the vibrator is probably a myth.

A century later, “Quiet Adventure in Alaska” still sounds pretty good.

Trump’s critic is utilizing a practice employed by many of the Founding Fathers to protect truth from power.

Millions of American children were placed in orphanages. Some didn’t make it out alive.

The justices again appear poised to pursue a purely theoretical liberty at the expense of the lives of people of color.

In St. Augustine lie the ruins of Fort Mose, built in 1738 as the first free black settlement in what would become the United States.

A bold protest 50 years ago put a renewed women’s liberation movement on the public map—and offers lessons for today’s resistance.

Looking at the Pullman Strike and the political forces it stirred.

A hurricane historian talks about the still-unfolding disaster in Puerto Rico.

Scholars disagree on existing precedents—and the question won’t be settled until evidence leads a prosecutor to try it.

Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich were hooked on his diet.

Cybex fitness equipment fills gyms around the world. Where did it come from?

America’s favorite piece of workout equipment was developed as a device for forced labor in British prisons.

In his 2-million-word journal, the transcendentalist balanced poetic wonder and scientific rigor as he explored the natural world.

The swimsuit that's controversial now for its sexist overtones was once controversial for its suggestions of women’s liberation.

Irish tattoos in 1860s New York.

For a time, eating and relaxing among the dead was a national pastime.

The "bikini body" is out. But the pressure to maintain the ideal female physique lives on.

Hill revisits the infamous Clarence Thomas hearings with five of the congressional women who supported her.

In 1991, Anita Hill publicly accused then Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment in the early 1980s.

White victimhood's roots in the Civil War.

In an open letter, an encyclopedia editor stands behind the use of the term "white supremacy" to describe the UDC's work.

A century-old image and the film it inspired.

How the New England town became the mythical landscape of American democracy.

Connecting the dots between discriminatory housing policies in the 1930s and urban food insecurity today.

Is the unique dialect a vestige of Elizabethan England? Left over from Scots-Irish immigrants? Or something else altogether?

The ethical formation of citizens was once at the heart of the US elite college. Has this moral purpose gone altogether?

Why Confederacy supporters erased the legacy of one its most accomplished soldiers.

The surprise vice presidential nomination of Julian Bond suddenly turned the televised discussion to poverty, racism, and war.

An excerpt from a novel by Todd Gitlin that reimagines the violence outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

Each one flown outside the slave states amounts to an admission that the flag represents whiteness, not Southernness.

The grand lesson of John McCain's life should be that heroic politics is a broken politics.