u.s. history

"I idolized women like Marvel Cooke," Angela Davis tells Teen Vogue.

Parks spent her life “rebelling against second-class citizenship.”

The Black officers who killed Tyre Nichols are part of a racist, violent system.

But this was a pivotal period in American history.

Martin Luther King Jr. was a socialist who thought “something is wrong with capitalism.”

At this “self-governing” Vermont campus, students run the show.

Here’s an inside look into the hectic life of Senate pages.

Influenced by civil rights and the feminist movement, we wanted rights and we wanted respect.

“Indigenous cultures regard hair as sacred, alive, and an expression of one’s spirit.”

Si Spiegel invented the artificial Christmas tree.

Imagine!

Texas v. Johnson “reinforced that free speech protection is not limited to words.”

Faculty and staff once owned slaves, and professors taught racial eugenics.

Fifty years ago, women gathered in a West Village basement to share their abortion stories.

There is so much at stake in these races.

Our curated story collections can help aid education in and outside the classroom.

From affirmative action to the Zapatistas.

Xenophobia offers “a very simple answer. It secures a common enemy.”

The radical organizer saw Black dignity and power as essential.

The Court is demolishing the separation of church and state.