Two stories from the 19th century about government records being falsified to foment distrust of nonwhite Americans.

Are war films ever true? The historian Norman Kagan introduced this question in his 1974 book The War Film, adding, “true to what?” Are they true to the experience of war? Are they true to history, to ...

In 18th century Paris, policemen accepted that property could take the form of people.

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Julie Greene is professor of history at the University of Maryland, College Park. Workers at the Panama Canal, 1913. Photograph by Harris & Ewing. [Library of Congress] A young man named Edgar ...

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 ...

Although other figures have appeared on the presidential ballot three times, and FDR did it four times, Trump could potentially become the first three-time popular vote loser.  ...

Historians of naturism Sarah Schrank and Stephen L. Harp believe that the panoptical nature of social media is eroding a longstanding divergence between European and American attitudes about nudity in ...

When asked to think about the history of racism in the United States, many people think first about slavery and segregation in the South. There's often less focus on the racism that existed, and ...

A New American Labor Movement: The Decline of Collective Bargaining and the Rise of Direct Action by William E. Scheuerman (SUNY Press, 2021) During 2021, there were signs of growing militancy in ...

Climate science is not a new discipline and the scientific consensus on climate change is far older than many people think.