From the beginning, Longfellow made a point to include female VLSC lifesavers at exhibitions and carnivals, believing that women and girls in the audience would be inspired to see members of their ...

Pence and Sessions are but two prominent Americans in and out of politics today who continue refueling a centuries-old controversy over the role of religion in American life.

He was accused of treason. Only the hunger for reconciliation saved him. Seven weeks after Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House, Judge John C. Underwood demanded justice, while ...

The Sixties counterculture, its beliefs and practices, its odyssey into the Seventies, and its many legacies as it became integrated into mainstream culture help explain the United States today.

The forces limiting government power in the area of health, the proponents of American exceptionalism, and the rejection of the needs of the poor won their day in nineteenth-century American ...

Rethinking the job of history — and the American Historical Association — after the veto of the Gaza “scholasticide” resolution.

The U.S. Justice Department recently hauled Google into court for violating an 1890 federal law designed to forestall the unjust consolidation of economic power. Known today as the Sherman Act ...

Is it Muslim or Moslem?When Baby Boomers were children it was Moslem. The American Heritage Dictionary (1992) noted,"Moslem is the form predominantly preferred in journalism and popular usage ...

Gladiator and Gladiator II have little to do with the Roman past. But they have a great deal to do with the American present.

Mark Bickhard is Henry R. Luce Professor in Cognitive Robotics and the Philosophy of Knowledge in the Department of Psychology at Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA). Comparisons between Trump(ism ...

To reconstruct the story of queer America, we need to open up its tabloids.

Revisiting the Agrarian-Distributists and their fabrication of an American past.