Even after the fighting started, it took years before American Patriots started calling their cause a “revolution.” ...

Van Gosse is Professor of History Emeritus at Franklin & Marshall College, co-chair for Historians and Peace and Democracy, and author of The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America, From the ...

On a chilly night in the spring of 1934, a 27-year old lawyer and future member of Congress named Robert F. Jones took a ride out to Henry Tapscott’s farm a few miles east of Lima, Ohio. Surrounded by ...

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 ...

Crystal R. Sanders is associate professor of African American studies at Emory University. In July 2022, just days after Americans celebrated Independence Day, President Joseph Biden presented the ...

Alex Frangos, in Slate (Feb. 26, 2004): Rynn Berry wants to set the record straight about Adolf Hitler."There's absolutely no evidence he was a vegetarian. It simply isn't true." Berry, a 54-year-old ...

Marc Egnal is an emeritus professor at York University, Toronto. He is the author, among other books, of A Mighty Empire: The Origins of the American Revolution and Challenging the Myths of U.S.

Thomas Cahill, a multilingual scholar who wrote a surprise 1995 best seller demonstrating to the world how a small band of Irish monks collected and protected the jewels of Western civilization after ...

Claire Wolnisty is associate professor of United States history at Austin College. She is the author of A Different Manifest Destiny: U.S. Southern Identity and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century South ...

A lot of conservatives are in a huff about alleged racist cartoons depicting Condi Rice. In general, their charges are overblown. There is at least one dramatic exception, however. This cartoon by ...

The yards were far from perfect, of course. Apprentices often suffered grievously, and egalitarianism often existed only within trades — shipwrights did not stand up for ropemakers, for instance. The ...