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.

A 1963 protest placard in the Smithsonian collections could almost be mistaken for any of the Black Lives Matter marches of today

Everywhere American popular culture has penetrated, people use the phrase “Get out of Dodge” or “Gettin’ outta Dodge” when referring to some dangerous or

He produced programs, like “Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant” and “Like It Is,” that exposed a wide audience to the black experience.

As the country struggles with a terrible opioid crisis, we remember a similar epidemic that raged through the U.S. in the 1800s.