With estimates ranging between 60 and 90 million dead worldwide, including the 6 million Jews murdered by the Nazis, World ...

Famous for his books about the founders, Gordon S. Wood’s true legacy may have been about showing how futile their efforts ...

Jim Crow Was on the Ash Heap of History. Then Came the Roberts Court. The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our history. The new nation’s leaders fled ...

A historian stumbles upon an article that provides a fascinating glimpse into how the world thought about witchcraft and sex in 1963.

Jordan Sand is a professor of Japanese history at Georgetown University. He writes widely on topics in the social and cultural history of Japan and the Asia-Pacific. His most recent book is A History ...

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 ...

It is now barely a half-century since the publication of Ayn Rand’s novel, Atlas Shrugged (1957). If the Motor of the World has not yet stopped in the emerging, and on-going, financial crisis of the ...

Catherine Phipps is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol. She has a doctorate from the University of Oxford and has published a book on Histories of Sex Work Around the World.

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 ...

Jeff Forret is professor and Distinguished Faculty Research Fellow at Lamar University. His latest book is Williams’ Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and His Cargo of Black Convicts (Cambridge ...

John Murphy, in the Balt Sun (June 30, 2004): GOREE ISLAND, Senegal - Standing in a narrow doorway opening onto the Atlantic Ocean, tour guide Aladji Ndiaye asked a visitor to this Senegalese island's ...