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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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

The chilling details of the U.S. military's plan to use the very scientists who had been essential to Hitler’s war effort.

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 ...

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

Perhaps the greatest side plot in Season 3 of Netflix’s Bridgerton involves the sexual education of the Featherington sisters. Overbearing mama Lady Portia Featherington (Polly Walker) is ...