The battles over Critical Race Theory and Southern heritage are really about a narrow, exclusionary reading of our past.

A recent right-wing plot to overthrow German democracy wasn’t the first such effort.

Development aid targeted for water as an economic and technical matter had environmental and financial consequences.

Conservative Christians have waged a war against the U.S. being a secular, civic republic.

President Trump’s tax returns reflect the way the wealthy often bend the rules.

In the Byzantine Empire, ideas of race and gender were deeply intertwined.

It’s a political movement willing to align with anyone to win.

The extraordinary events that have marked the past six years have proved we badly need good history.

The hard-hat riot fueled the Republican courtship of White working-class voters through appeals on cultural issues, former secretary of labor Robert B. Reich explains.

The recent indictments of rappers Young Thug and Gunna echo the case of a New Orleans rapper, McKinley “Mac” Phipps, more than 20 years ago.

The alliance between corporate America and LGBTQ rights

In the 1970s, the gay rights movement worked to build bridges with organized labor, understanding the need for broad support.

The right charges that criticisms of the United States from the left are unpatriotic — but history says they're wrong.

Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall and Patrick Henry didn’t advocate for prosecution of a woman who probably had an abortion.

The policy roots of today’s childcare crisis

Seeing the late Queen only as a benevolent force contributes to the whitewashing of the history of the British Empire.

How the connection between race and waste shapes not only slurs but policy and economics

TIME’s new partnership with the leading history platform will provide readers historical analysis of U.S. current events

From Southern rock band to “American Band” the Truckers have thrived and evolved.

This oft-forgotten episode epitomized the courage of civil rights activists facing severe repression.

Sen. Raphael Warnock and challenger Herschel Walker, both Black, square off in a contest designed to empower White voters.

The extraordinary events that have marked the past six years have proved we badly need good history.

How Christian conservatives' version of American history shaped the Supreme Court’s abortion and gun decisions.

Americans have never agreed on what to teach about our history and government.

The Constitution sanctioned some of the most politically progressive ideas in history. It also blessed slavery.

Argentina is far more diverse than many people realize — but the myth that it is a White nation has persisted.

The convergence between the rhetoric of American Nazis in the 1970s and the Trump wing of the GOP today is dangerous.

They change labor dynamics, which sometimes enables workers to make new demands.

The hidden link between the history of Mormon women and colorful leggings.

The GOP is comparing its new House subcommittee to a famous investigation, but the two have only superficial similarities.

How the media can avoid getting lured into a trap.

They level social critiques in an accessible way.

For more than a century, U.S. wars of invasion have claimed a humanitarian mantle.

The anti-democratic tactic has prevented pro-worker legislation for over a half-century.

Biden needs to stare down White supremacy, which requires strenuous enforcement of the laws.

A new documentary explores the origins of the Montgomery Bus Boycott — with lessons on how we see movements.

Memorial Day can obscure the horror of battle by aggrandizing wartime sacrifice.

Cable TV's backers sold the technology as a boon to democracy, but embraced a business model that chased niche audiences.

Tacitly allowing antiabortion activists to enforce an abortion ban will lead to harassment, shaming and even violence.

Georgia’s own history highlights what out-organizing voter suppression really entails.

Many "investment“ tax breaks in the U.S. tax code embody structural racism.

Can a system built on racial violence actually deliver justice?

Decisions made now could shape the next 100 years

The founding generation revised the country’s history to make the new nation work.

Dealing with bigoted chapters in their past could help universities regain public trust.

Since the 1960s, border enforcement and deterrence policies have made migrants vulnerable to abuse and exploitation.

How Philadelphia addressed violence before embracing tough-on-crime policing.

Evangelicals started speaking out against legal abortion long before the late 1970s.

Generations of activists have reclaimed the witch archetype to resist patriarchal control and stand up to injustice in their own lives.

Organizing and advocacy are key when confronting bigotry.

But the city’s Black community has been targeted by the police a lot longer than the miniseries contends.

The pathbreaking life that most Americans don’t know about.

An ongoing trial is bringing atrocities to light.

Even before the United States regulated migration, states did. Here’s why.

But a legal change has made circumstances — and the goal of the events — very different.

It’s a story of U.S. misdeeds, but also Native resilience.

It’s not just Chick-fil-A.

But the city’s Black community has been targeted by the police a lot longer than the miniseries contends.

Asian Americans have been both the victims — and perpetrators — of racial discrimination.

Who tells our stories has always mattered.

Jews from the Ottoman Empire pioneered the Christmas lights market a century ago — but nativism, antisemitism and islamophobia obscured this history.

The history of segregation in the Navy — and its abolition — show how to combat institutionalized bigotry.

Until recently, barbecue’s indispensable African American cooks were left out of barbecue storytelling.

Inflation isn't inexorably a bad thing. In fact, it used to be considered good.

There are more than 400 million guns in Americans' hands.