New perspectives on how history is made
How trade shaped the lives of the people who lived in a 17th century West African port town.
In the mid-19th century, governments on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border set out to recast North America’s political landscape.
In the 17th-century Caribbean, a person’s legal status depended on who controlled the land where they labored.
A Black socialist magazine urges solidarity and action in 1919.
An HBCU president looks to Kwame Nkrumah’s leadership in Ghana for inspiration.
The 21st century American city was forged in the embers of the 1970s arson wave.
On the women who helped make — and keep making — the Bayeux Tapestry.
Early American elites were fascinated with genealogy, despite the ways it attached them to the Old World.
The 1893 World’s Fair and the origins of Aunt Jemima.
Two stories from the 19th century about government records being falsified to foment distrust of nonwhite Americans.
In 18th century Paris, policemen accepted that property could take the form of people.
The state of design in 1970.
How to use public history and memories to mobilize people to solve environmental challenges.
After the Civil War, conservatives used terrorism, cold-blooded murder, and economic coercion to fight the new state constitution in South Carolina.
The history of the three-drug combo used in death-penalty executions.
John Quincy Adams challenges the idea of an expanding American frontier.
How the dystopian visions of the nativist right are in keeping with a long tradition of neoliberal ideology.
In the 1990s, an entire industry was born of trying to convince Americans that Beanie Babies were a great investment opportunity.
Between 1929 and 1939 approximately half a million Mexicans left the United States. Many of the departing families included American-born children to whom Mexico, not the United States, was the foreign land.
On the movement that fought for old-age pensions during the Great Depression.
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