As the U.S. Treasury considers putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill to honor her role in the northbound underground railroad, new attention is being paid to the often overlooked southbound route.

The CIA tried to fight communism by dosing unwitting soldiers and prisoners with acid. ON APRIL 10, 1953, ALLEN DULLES, THE NEWLY APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF THE CIA, delivered a speech to a gathering of Princeton alumni. Though the event was mundane, global tensions were running high. The Korean War was coming to an end, and earlier that week, The New York Times had published a startling story asserting that American POWs returning from the country may have been “converted” by “Communist brain-washers.”

After the Civil War, Henrietta Wood made history by pursuing an audacious lawsuit against the man who’d kidnapped her back into slavery. Yet the story was lost to her own family.

There was a time when the Victorian facade was a prevalent status symbol in the United States.

Then as now, not many people were willing to raise their own voices to defend the speech of a vulgarian spewing hate over a mass medium.

When radio was king, many outlets chose to cease broadcasting Father Charles Coughlin's anti-Semitic sermons

In the past few days, I’ve seen all kinds of statements from Christian leaders trying to distance themselves from the violent mob at the Capitol. Christian writers known for their thoughtfulness lament that “somehow” white supremacy has crept into our churches, and the faculty of a major evangelical institution put out a manifesto saying that the events at the Capitol “bear absolutely no resemblance to” the Christianity they teach. That mob, they’re telling us, is a fringe element. They’ve radically misunderstood the real message of American Christianity.

Republicans and Democrats in North Carolina are locked in a battle over which party inherits the shame of Jim Crow.

Until 2021, Americans had confronted federal authority with armed aggression just four times.

His exhaustive coverage of the Vietnam War also led to the book “A Bright Shining Lie,” which won a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize.

Since the US presidential election on November 3 2020, Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the result and deny president-elect Joe Biden his victory have grown ever more desperate. Most recently a recording of a phone call to the secretary of the state of Georgia, Brad Raffensperger, on January 2, has revealed that Trump pressured Raffensperger to “find” more than 11,000 votes to tip the state’s result his way.

The public website draws connections between existing datasets to piece together fragmentary narratives

Preserving the legacy of Lewis Mountain in Shenandoah National Park.

A new monument to Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Sojourner Truth debuted on the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment.

Rick Perlstein’s “Reaganland” completes his multivolume survey of American conservatism with the 1980 election victory of Ronald Reagan.

Arizona gave women the right to vote in 1912. But the constitutional provision could have been adopted even earlier, if not for the liquor lobby.

This Is What Democracy Looked Like by Alicia Yin Cheng is the first book of its kind to look at the history of ballot design.

Why did American policing get so big, so fast? The answer, mainly, is slavery.

Sculptor Gutzon Borglum was deeply involved with the Ku Klux Klan while designing the Confederate memorial at Stone Mountain outside Atlanta

The southern state of Mississippi is the last in the US to feature the emblem on its flag.