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Thousands of Americans die preventable deaths each year. Why do we consider them mishaps?

The Christmas classic, released 75 years ago, conveys many messages beyond having faith in one another.

The history of the United States as the history of capitalism.

A six-hour workday could have become the national standard during the Great Depression. Here's the story of why that didn't happen.

At first, it was all about hauling things we needed. Then the vehicle itself became the thing we wanted.

As we confront rightwing extremism in our own time, the history of American fascist sympathy reveals a legacy worth reckoning with.

How 150 years of apocalyptic agitation culminated in an insurrection.

A brief history of the Yuletide in America.

The two decades leading up to WWII featured numerous connections between America and Nazi Germany that reveal Nazism was never simply a foreign or enemy force.

On William Gibson, Sonic Youth, and the genesis of the American suburb.

Over 100 years, a tactic first designed to keep workers happy morphed into a marketing strategy.

The inventor did not look for problems in need of solutions; he looked for solutions in need of modification.

In 1790, as the First Amendment was being ratified, George Washington made a promise to American Jews.

The National Conservatism Conference in Washington had a very 1930s vibe.

What the backlash to the emergency legislation reveals about the age-old pathologies of the right.

Long before “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” holiday songs played a part in the War on Christmas.

The long, entwined history of America First and the American dream.

Well off Savannah's tourist trail, there's a replica of an antebellum plantation home in the middle of a public housing project.

It's the transatlantic commentariat’s favorite political put-down. It’s also historically illiterate.

The word 'history' evolved from an ancient Greek verb, but its definition has changed over the years