Eric Eisner is a PhD student in the Johns Hopkins History Department. David B. Froomkin is an assistant professor of law at the University of Houston Law Center. The reigning mythology of the United ...

Marina Manoukian is a writer and artist. She received her Masters in English Philology at Freie Universität Berlin. A Ford truck is loaded with ivory tusks in Essex, Connecticut, 19th century.

How the younger brother of the famous general set out to destroy the scourge of monopoly power.

How did women in 19th-century Europe learn about the birds and the bees?

On the test case that provoked the courts to decide whether the federal government had jurisdiction to exercise American criminal law over Native peoples on Native lands. by Keith Richotte Jr. Keith ...

A UC Berkeley student picket supports a strike protesting demonstrators’ arrests, 1964. Photograph by Don Kechely. [Online Archive of California] For over a century, U.S. politicians have made ...

Will Teague is an instructor in the Department of History at the University of Arkansas. Students demonstrating against the Shah of Iran, Washington, DC, 1979. Photograph by Marion S. Trikosko.

An article from the April 1953 issue of Good Housekeeping. [Proquest] Polio, short for poliomyelitis, infects the intestinal tract. It can then travel to the brain stem, where it halts lung function ...

Cecily Zander is an assistant professor of history at Texas Woman’s University and a senior fellow at the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. She is the author of The ...

Joshua D. Farrington is Assistant Professor of History at Bluegrass Community and Technical College. Civil rights parade at the 1964 Republican National Convention in San Francisco. Photograph by ...

Three new books propose market solutions to problems that require government intervention. We’ve been here before. It didn’t end well. Histories of big league baseball, from the achievements of the ...

Mr. Reeves taught history for over thirty years at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, in Kenosha. He is the author of many books including, A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy. Since ...