Olivia Paschal is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Virginia, and a journalist and writer. Resources of the Soil (Mural Study, Ukiah, California Post Office), by Ben Cunningham, c.

Translating the first book printed in English was quite stressful, as William Caxton made clear in his profoundly neurotic introduction to the 1473 edition of The Recuyell of the Historyes of ...

One day in the fall of 1841, the Black abolitionist William Johnson was walking down the street in Philadelphia when a friend thrust a “Human Rights Circular” into his hands. The printed ...

Shelomo Alfassa is an author, historian and internationally known advocate for Sephardic Jewry. He has successfully worked with the U.S. Congress to bring about greater representation for ...

Trump’s baseless claims about migrants in Ohio reflect a long history of prejudice against Haitians. In Washington, those falsehoods have driven policy. A new book tells the story of American ...

Nicholas Turse, writing in www.tomdispatch.com, a weblog of the Nation Institute (April 2004): Since 1961, thanks to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, we've all been cognizant of the"unwarranted ...

Julilly Kohler-Hausmann is a Doctoral Candidate in the History Department, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Of course the Rockefeller Drug Laws have failed to reduce crime and drug abuse.

Mr. Stern was historian at the JFK Library from 1977 to 1999 and is the author of Averting ‘the Final Failure’: John F. Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings (2003) and The Week ...

Mr. Newman is Professor Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh. His latest book is Enola Gay and the Court of History (Peter Lang Publishing, 2004). What is new in the argument over Truman’s ...

Mr. Pelifian received a B.A. from the State University of New York at Geneseo, NY in English/Drama and Education, an MBA in International Managment from Thunderbird School of Global Management in ...

The Hooblers are the authors of Captain John Smith: Jamestown and the Birth of the American Dream (Wiley, 2007 paperback). They’re still taking shots at Captain John Smith, 400 years after that ...