“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.

Much of what the young American Republic did was without precedent, and the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 was ...

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