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St. Louis elites responded to a nationwide labor movement with a movement of their own.

Individual liberty is served by pursuit of the common good.

Cities have long been places of refuge from the injustices of people's original homelands.

A member of the Lumbee Tribe weighs in on the protests beneath the infamous confederate monument in Chapel Hill.

The 105-year old monument crashed down on its face after a rally in support of a student who allegedly vandalized it last spring.

Move beyond the Confederate monument debate and recognize the black people whose lives and labor laid our society's foundations.

Its staggering forms made monuments out of ordinary places frequented by ordinary people.

Hidden within this most pervasive mythology of the Revolution is a distortion of the Revolutionary experience.

Tracing the origins of OSINT from World War II to the Iranian Green Movement.

The 1822 board game, the first to feature a map of the United States, was forgotten for nearly a century.

Eighty years after WWII, survivors of Japanese American incarceration reflect on lost childhoods and the lasting impact of wartime injustice.

This story is as enriching as the added nutrients in the legendary white bread.

The invention of a salmon-butchering machine put the final nail in the coffin of the workers who built the fish canning industry.

The American Legion was a forerunner to today's American nationalist organizations.

When the founders were hashing out how they would structure the executive branch, some were concerned about placing too much authority in one person.

A rebuttal to Ibram X. Kendi's assertion that modern racism had its origins in the 1690 writings of John Locke.

The driving question of scholarship should be “what is the evidence for your argument?” Instead, it has become “whose side are you on?”

An exhausted America turns two hundred and fifty.

There's a lesson laying there: Make it local, embrace the commercial, and ignore the president.

The pamphleteer’s insistence that America live up to its revolutionary vows still rings true 250 years later.

On Americans' off-and-on, centuries-long effort to paint Washington as an antislavery crusader.

To understand the history of the nation, look to the history of its sports.

The answer has implications for how we move on. But nothing is straightforward.

How the Compromise of 1850 deepened the slavery crisis.

As the World Cup evolved into a multibillion-dollar spectacle, a bilingual culture emerged, onscreen and off.

Songs weren't always labeled for explicit lyrics. The history of how it all came about includes some unlikely bedfellows.

Corruption. Racism. Misogyny. Capitalism. The world’s sport, beloved for spreading joy, is also full of the world’s problems. All the more reason to watch.

What is living and what is dead in our memory of the American Revolution.

As the Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments challenging the removal of independent agency heads, historians and legal scholars have filed briefs.

Unlike in Europe, native rulers had little formal authority; they had to persuade others to follow their ideas.

What should we do with the cosplay sailor?

On the causes of the American Revolution.

July 4 and the perils of celebrating America’s past.

The centennial of women’s suffrage which guaranteed all women the right to vote — has a lie at its very core.

History helps explain the particular faith that now rules our religious marketplace.

With opioids ravaging communities, the U.S. could learn from this 1971 policy.

A 66-day stretch in 1946 produced Donald Trump, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton — and the baby boom itself.

Who controls the Nixon Library? A dispute over how to tell his story raises questions about the purpose, and legitimacy, of presidential libraries.

Over time, presidential libraries have morphed into a way for past presidents to shape their legacy on the taxpayers' dime. Obama is doing things differently.

It is a momentous expression of republican principles and true religious liberty.

The women who founded the 1980s-era Parents Music Resource Center portrayed it as being beyond politics. Its actions, funding, and legacy suggest otherwise.

The most consequential sentence of the Supreme Court’s 2026 unsigned shadow docket decision in Allen v. Milligan is wrong.

Critiques of artificial intelligence abound. Where’s the utopian vision for what it could be?

President Trump claims that America is a nation based in faith. It’s more complicated than that.

The beautiful game has never looked more beautiful on the pitch, or more ugly off it.

Our national bird isn’t what we believe it to be—but it is the perfect bird for an imperfect country.

The magazine’s explosive growth mirrored the nation's emergence as a global empire.

Academics and media turned “machismo” into a cultural stereotype during the Cold War.

Some states are adopting a cartoon version of the past into their curricula.

AI has been billed as a new frontier. Yet, its big-tech owners have used the frontiersman billing to declare themselves accountable to no one and no law.