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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The women who founded the 1980s-era Parents Music Resource Center portrayed it as being beyond politics. Its actions, funding, and legacy suggest otherwise. The PMRC endured through the 1990s, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A couple of interesting posts at The Russian Front suggest that the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-5 should be thought of as a World War Zero, or alternatively that the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-8 should ...