New perspectives on how history is made
Historians have joined the effort to help put the struggle against modern slavery in context.
A historian visits the new, and not quite complete, National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta.
The differences between the original Tea Party and the current Tea Party that borrows its name.
What does Mad Men tell us about American life today?
What's happening in Chicano studies.
Under Nixon we spent a lot more federal resources on drug rehab than we do now.
LBJ didn't succeed in passing legislation through Congress just because he knew how to get things done.
1964 was when the women's movement came of age.
Both of them paid homage to the free enterprise system.
How Woody Allen helped ignite the revolt against taxes.
Liberals used to dominate the tax debate. Then they caved.
Once upon a time we loved corporations. Then the sixties happened.
Why are so many coming home from our wars broken?
Find out what American historians are thinking.
What Putin is doing is simply falling in step with a long line of Great Russian leaders.
Tokyo overturned a 50-year ban on selling military hardware overseas.
If history is any indication, then the election in Afghanistan is a true crossroads in its history; either the country learns from its own past or it tragically repeats it.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Support for Israeli political and military actions have been doing the work of American conservative ideologies, but in liberal disguise.
Senate Bill 5, derived mainly from the right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), was designed to crush public unions across the state.
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