At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family ...

The U.S. was once the world’s most geographically mobile society. Now we’re stuck in place—and that’s a very big problem.

At her farm near Corquin, Esperanza Torres Melgar, 59, has grown accustomed to traders showing up and offering immediate cash ...

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The Freedom and Slavery Working Group will use a TRAC grant to continue our multi-disciplinary project investigating slavery and its legacies in the present, while integrating our research with ...

President Donald Trump is waging an all-out assault on education by issuing executive orders designed to privatize schooling, ...

Ida grew up in luxury but by the time she met and married Richard, she was working as a governess — an early sign of the shifting social ... class at home.” Story continues below this ad For five ...

Immanuel Wallerstein was convinced that the capitalist system would end within the next few decades and would either be ...

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Today, we will see how two of their squadrons also carried out a daring naval raid against French and English colonies in America, briefly reclaiming the New Netherlands. The Nieuw-Nederland, as they ...

Reports of weird, alien-like blobs appearing all over North America briefly caused ... with groups of colonies forming a delicate structure known as a thicket. Among the various types of zooid ...