The Golden Nugget Hotel & Casino, left, and Binion's Gambling Hall & Hotel in Las Vegas Photograph by Ethan Miller/Getty Images. This article arises from Future Tense, a partnership of Slate, the New ...

The Bee Gees performing on NBC's The Midnight Special in 1973. NBC Television Listen to Episode 16 of Slate’s Hit Parade: Listen to Hit Parade via Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Stitcher, or ...

Wikimedia Commons/White House Historical Association It’s a familiar chapter in our history, part of the triumphant narrative of westward expansion: In 1803, the United States bought a massive chunk ...

Jesse Jackson at an event honoring Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, D.C., in 1983. Leonard Freed/Magnum Photos Jesse Jackson first ran for president during the national ...

Donald Trump gives a fist-pump to the ground crew as he arrives on his plane in St. Augustine, Florida, on Oct. 24. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters Read Franklin Foer's follow-up story for new statements from ...

Byron Marshall of the Oregon Ducks scores a 70-yard touchdown against the Ohio State Buckeyes during the College Football Playoff National Championship Game on Jan. 12, 2015. He dropped the ball, ...

In 1996, the New Yorker published “Hating Hillary,” Henry Louis Gates’ reported piece on the widespread animosity for the then–first lady. “Like horse-racing, Hillary-hating has become one of those ...

When Josephine Anderson, a formerly enslaved Floridian, was visited by a white government interviewer in the fall of 1937, she told him a ghost story. Anderson described to Jules Frost a “white man” ...

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Photo illustration by Lisa Larson-Walker. Photos by Getty Images, via Wikimedia Commons. In recent years, as academic history has taken a turn toward the cultural and social, producing more and more ...

Welcome to Slate’s celebration of all the things that went right this year! Good news is hard to find. One of journalism’s most important jobs is to call out what’s wrong with the world so we know ...

Studio publicity photo for the film A Woman of Affairs, showing Greta Garbo and John Gilbert, 1929. Photo courtesy MGM Studios/Creative Commons You Must Remember This, the podcast that tells the ...