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History is being made right now, both by the Trump administration, attempting to slash the federal workforce and the public services that it provides, and by federal workers and their supporters ...

Join Renée Camila for part one in a three-part series on medicine making basics. This week Renée focuses on the oldest herbal preparation: tea. She discusses the different between beverage teas and ...

Guest: David W. Blight is Sterling Professor of History and African American Studies at Yale University.  He is the author of several books on Slavery and Abolition including, Frederick Douglass: ...

The oil and gas industry desperately wants you to believe its products are part of a sustainable future. The facts say otherwise.

The intersection of immigration, border enforcement, new technology and specifically artificial intelligence, is racing toward more intense and more violent border enforcement strategies that are ...

Manisha Sinha is the James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut. Her new book is The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic. Reconstruction: 1860 ...

Karen Washington and Bryant Terry on how Black Food culture is weaving the threads of a rich African agricultural heritage with the liberation of economics from an extractive corporate food oligarchy.

Every year, more than 80,000 African Americans die prematurely. The medical establishment relies on genetics or dietary patterns to explain such appalling numbers. But sociologist George Lipsitz ...

A number of federal agencies rushed to make clear they would be scrubbing activities and events that “celebrate cultural awareness” in an effort to stay on the good side of the weird new White House.

Greg Grandin is Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, author of many books including The End of the Myth, The Empire of Necessity, Fordlandia; and his forthcoming, América, América: A New History of the ...

On today’s show: “Enormous Destruction”: Trump’s Tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China Set to Worsen Inflation “Time for It to Die”: Trump and Musk Back Closing USAID, as Freeze on Foreign Aid ...