Five months before his assassination in 1978, Harvey Milk called on the president of the United States to defend the rights of gay and lesbian Americans.

“The idea that the federal government would be providing emergency relief and emergency work was extraordinary,” one sociologist said. “And people liked it.”

Historians traditionally point to economic and social conditions as the primary causes for the Great Migration, but racist hate crimes played a role as well.

The push for a national Martin Luther King holiday prompted a fierce political tug-of-war, on campus and off.

Over the course of the nineteenth century policing became increasingly professionalized.

The age when we grow up and begin our adult lives has changed over the years.

In a treaty signed in Paris on April 30, France swapped 828,000 square miles of North America to the U.S. for $15 million.

Heather Gilligan explores the impact of racism on the fight towards universal health care.