After the Civil War, conservatives used terrorism, cold-blooded murder, and economic coercion to fight the new state constitution in South Carolina.

In his 1947 book The World and Africa, W.E.B. Du Bois remarked that a society built on capitalistic exploitation doesn’t see the “blood on the piano keys.” Throughout his lifetime, piano ...

A UC Berkeley student picket supports a strike protesting demonstrators’ arrests, 1964. Photograph by Don Kechely. [Online Archive of California] For over a century, U.S. politicians have made ...

“We need to get the bastards out of here.” It’s a statement that could have been uttered by many American presidents about a wide array of groups through history. John Adams, perhaps, may ...

Joshua D. Farrington is Assistant Professor of History at Bluegrass Community and Technical College. Civil rights parade at the 1964 Republican National Convention in San Francisco. Photograph by ...

Steven Spielberg’s 2012 film Lincoln might well have been called Stevens, after its alternate protagonist: the irascible chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Thaddeus Stevens. As ...

Several years ago, I was involved in some research that led me to the back catalog of Better Homes and Gardens and Good Housekeeping. Flipping through every issue of both magazines published ...

Gabriel Winant is associate professor of history at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Next Shift: The Fall of Manufacturing and the Rise of Health Cares in Rust Belt America. His ...

Rethinking the job of history — and the American Historical Association — after the veto of the Gaza “scholasticide” resolution.

The introduction of the currency in November 1927, replacing the use of the Egyptian Pound, was greeted with jubilation by the Jewish population as a symbolic reaffirming of Jewish rights to the ...

Queen Marie-Louise outlived most of her family, yet her story about the revolution and its aftermath was rarely consulted by those writing the era’s history.

In December 1900, Frank M. Chapman, the first curator of birds at the American Museum of Natural History, proposed the idea of the Christmas Bird Count (CBC) in an article in his magazine Bird ...