History

Here's a look back at the work of this remarkable activist who is still engaged in the struggle for human emancipation.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the declassification of top secret studies, done over a period of 60 years, in which the US conducted 2,000 radiation experiments on …

100 years after the Triangle fire, we still hear the same rhetoric whenever reformers seek to use government to businesses act more responsibly.

It seems an appropriate time to consider how we got to this scary place, and how we can get out.

On this 10-year anniversary, that dialogue is needed more than ever if there's to be any hope of limiting wars of aggression in the future.

African-Americans, both at the birth of the 20th century and today, have had a connection with the Philippines.

It turns out that 54 nations (other than the US) took part in setting up, aiding, and maintaining the American global gulag.

Immigrant energy is contributing to a revival of progressive American political culture.

Nick Turse describes his efforts to compile a complete and compelling account of the Vietnam War's horror.

Historian Howard Zinn on Abraham Lincoln and the eventual abolition of slavery in the US. Which shows that Spielberg's new film, Lincoln, is far from historically accurate.