With duties ranging from issuing passports to offering commercial counsel to providing diplomatic mediation, consuls are a ubiquitous feature of our modern w...

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Asking difficult questions often comes at a cost.

Dolly Parton: renowned country star, successful businesswoman, celebrated philanthropist... leftist? Not so fast. In this week’s episode Yami Rodriguez and Justin Randolph sit down with historian Aman...

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A sweeping history of American prisons, showing how they have shaped the US from the founding to the present.The land of the free is the home of the prisoner...

The mid-1970s Church Committee investigation showed that the FBI, the CIA, and other intelligence agencies targeted the left collectively, not as isolated movements. We need to learn that lesson today.

Podcast Episode · Working History · September 24 · 48m

After several long years off the air, the beloved labor history podcast is back! Now brought to you by the Southern Labor Studies Association, the Labor and Working-Class History Association, LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History, and International Labor and Working-Class History. New episodes will drop weekly, starting Wednesday, September 23, 2026. Follow along and stay tuned for more Working History!

Being female or a person of color has long been seen as a disadvantage in hiring and promotion. A new study of college professors shows that class may loom as large.

In “Tower Hill,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar Alan Taylor pulls apart the twisted logic of a Virginia slave owner and his descendants.

A scathing investigation into the apocalyptic thinking of the Christian nationalists, tech-bro reactionaries, and populist survivalists who increasingly defi...

In the sound of the 1960s and 1970s, nothing symbolized the rift between black and white America better than the seemingly divided genres of country and soul...

In 1966, a retired high school principal named George Thompson Pound reached for his Rand McNally atlas. He turned to page six, took a pen, and drew off Appalachia. Starting in West Virginia…

How nationalists, theocrats and tech titans turned their backs on a shared future

UT courses on slavery, race, sexuality and environmental history are among those that could stop counting toward UT's core.

Phone and Email Zap for Loretta Pierre! First Week of the Month, Wed-Fri Loretta Pierre is a criminalized survivor and politicized prisoner who was denied parole for the 15th time in January 2026—mor...

The individual, detained by UNC Police, entered a Greenlaw Hall classroom Monday night with an aerosol can and lighter. He communicated racially charged threats and threw items at students before flee...

One frequently cited reason for parole denials is “community opposition.” We are the voice of community support—the community that wants the Five to be reconnected with their families and loved ones, ...

An online conversation with the Committee to Free the Mississippi Five and their comrades.

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Dozens of cities canceled contracts with Flock Safety, which makes license plate readers for police departments, amid strong backlash. Privacy experts say some alternatives are no better than Flock.

An online conversation with the Committee to Free the Mississippi Five and their comrades.