In July 1958, U.S. Marines stormed the beach in Beirut, Lebanon, ready for combat....

Driskell traces the roots of black protest politics to early 20th century Atlanta and the fight for equal education...

In 1866, a sixteen year old cowboy—the name was literal in his case—named J.M. Daugherty bought 1,000 cattle, hired five cowboys, and headed north for Missouri...

Nuevo South explores the history of an ever diversifying U.S. South...

Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848..

Pietruska assesses how different varieties of forecasting created an often-contradictory “culture of prediction” during the rise of modern bureaucracies...

Hajnal finds that race more than class or any other demographic factor shapes not only how Americans vote but also who wins and who loses...

Buccola uses the iconic debate between Baldwin and Buckley which took place at the Cambridge Union in February 1965 as an entry point into their own lives and their place within the post black freedom struggle...

Do immersion trips really transform those who participate and how so?

We say on this show all the time that democracy is hard work. But what does that really mean?

"Black Freedom" features the work of writers, artists, and activists, as they imagine gender justice through the framework of Wakanda...

Silverman reveals the complex history surrounding the 1621 feast that every November many Americans associate with silver-buckled Pilgrim costumes, Squanto and Massasoit, and miraculous feats of friendship...

Goldman has written a powerfully impressive new book on the long history of the political theology that he describes as “Christian Zionism"...

Greta de Jong discusses rural organizing, social justice movements, and the connected histories of the Civil Rights Movement and the War on Poverty in the US South...

Shortly after the first Europeans arrived in seventeenth-century New England, they began to import Africans and capture the area’s indigenous peoples as slaves...

Kronman contends that this is a failure by faculty and administrators to provide students with the intellectual and moral challenges they need in order become a fully-formed human being...

Dollinger challenges widely held beliefs about the black-Jewish alliance in American politics...

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...

Cornell and Leonard focus on the decline of the Founding generation's elitist vision of the Constitution and the rise of a more 'democratic' vision...

Greer provides a fascinating look at a trio of black imagemakers – publisher John H. Johnson, PR executive Moss Kendrix, and photographer Gordon Parks...

Young reframes the Cristero war as a transnational conflict...

Oropeza sheds new light on one of Chicano history’s most notorious figures...

Duina asks why impoverished Americans espouse such great and abiding love for their country even as they suffer and struggle to get by...

Think economics is the "dismal science" with abstract formulas that have no impact on life as it is actually lived? Think again...

Larry Diamond joins us this week to talk about the threat China’s model of authoritarian capitalism...