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Florida’s unapologetically racist governor, Ron DeSantis, has effectively declared war on the Black freedom movement.

Biden seeks counsel from a group of scholars who aren’t deeply versed in the racial threat to our democracy

Some folks celebrate American exceptionalism and resist dwelling on horrors like slavery or settler colonialism. Others primarily see a centuries-long saga of white supremacism and oppression.

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Critics of the New York Times’s 1619 Project insist the facts don’t support its proslavery reading of the American Revolution. But they obscure a longstanding debate within the field of U.S. history over that very issue.

Inflation is a lie, communism is fun, and twerking is important

The book version of the famed (and reviled) magazine issue is much longer, easier to read, and changed in canny ways that will help it endure.

How critical race theory has become a handy target for an old-fashioned assault on civil rights.

The GOP's attacks on teaching accurate history have sparked a new whitewashing industry. But what would a GOP-approved history book look like?

History is politics by other means, and we who care about it have to fight this war better and more strategically ourselves. We need history that can get us marching but also render us awed by how much there is to learn.