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Slave owners tried to keep enslaved people under control with better meals and more downtime during the holiday season. Many enslaved people were onto their owners and used this brief period of respite to plan escapes and start revolts,

In the early nineteenth century, the idea of species extinction was an alien concept. That changed after an expedition to Iceland in search of the last of the great auks.

In February 1939, the German-American Bund held an infamous, Hitler-supporting rally in Madison Square Garden. On Sunday, Trump will be holding a rally at Madison Square Garden. The parallel is unmistakable.

The discussion of climate change, as of every aspect of the planetary crisis, tends to be dominated by the question of capitalism and other economic issues; geopolitics, empire, and questions of power figure in it far less.

“The Secret Lives of Numbers,” by Kate Kitagawa and Timothy Revell, highlights overlooked contributions to the field by ancient thinkers, non-Westerners and women.

William’s rise to power brought new means of exploitation and expropriation, by which the assets and rights of the common people were eroded and a massive concentration of wealth at the top end of the scale enabled.

In October of 1845, having been silenced by government censors—and on the run from possible extradition—Karl Marx once thought about moving to Texas.

The legacy of a radical summer camp in New Jersey tells a largely overlooked story about left-wing politics and Black culture.

The spirit and reasoning of the majority in Trump v. U.S. immunity case evokes the worst of post-Civil War jurisprudence.