In an interview conducted in 2002, the late Helen Hornbeck Tanner, an influential historian of the Native American experience in the Midwest best known for her magisterial Atlas of Great Lakes Indian ...

Julie Greene is professor of history at the University of Maryland, College Park. Workers at the Panama Canal, 1913. Photograph by Harris & Ewing. [Library of Congress] A young man named Edgar ...

The United States contains less than 5 percent of the world’s population but incarcerates one-quarter of all prisoners across the globe. Statistics have long shown that persons of color make up a ...

Anthony Aycock has spent 24 years working in government, academic, and private libraries. He has also written for Slate, the Washington Post, Literary Hub, Reactor (formerly Tor.com), The Missouri ...

Jeffrey Normand Bourdon has published scholarly articles on the Jacksonian era, Progressive era, and Gilded Age front porch campaigns. He currently teaches history and writing at the University of ...

Journalist and author Steve Vogel reported for the Washington Post for more than 20 years, writing frequently about defense issues. His latest book, BETRAYAL IN BERLIN: The True Story of the Cold ...

World War II in Europe was the cause of innumerable atrocities against civilians: for instance, the Shoah, Allied and Axis carpet bombing, the destruction of Warsaw, and the cruelties of enforced ...

“Free college” is a visible and volatile issue in the Democrat candidates’ presidential campaign platforms. No Democratic candidate today can afford to ignore the issue, even if it means taking time ...

"Ever since the Lee unveiling," Elizabeth Van Lew of Richmond, Virginia wrote to a Massachusetts friend in 1891, "I have felt that this was no place for me.". This was a remarkable and revealing ...

On January 22, 1944 —75 years ago today— President Roosevelt reversed himself and established the War Refugee Board. The remarkable story of FDR’s turnabout sheds light on America’s response to the ...

Carolyn Barske Crawford is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Alabama. Chestnut Trees in Bloom, by William Henry Holmes. [Smithsonian American Art Museum] At one time, more than ...

In the late 1870s, the 70-year-old newspaper editor Henry Boernstein sat down to write about German immigrants’ efforts to shape the United States into a less brutal, more enlightened republic in the ...