After the Civil War, conservatives used terrorism, cold-blooded murder, and economic coercion to fight the new state ...

Conservatives in South Carolina first attempted to defeat the state’s new post-Civil War constitution by appealing to the federal government they had fought three years prior. A petition was ...

In Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash (1992), a novel that channeled perfectly the libertarian imagination of the post–Cold War moment, the territory once known as the United States has been ...

Marina Manoukian is a writer and artist. She received her Masters in English Philology at Freie Universität Berlin. A Ford truck is loaded with ivory tusks in Essex, Connecticut, 19th century.

A UC Berkeley student picket supports a strike protesting demonstrators’ arrests, 1964. Photograph by Don Kechely. [Online Archive of California] For over a century, U.S. politicians have made ...

Will Teague is an instructor in the Department of History at the University of Arkansas. Students demonstrating against the Shah of Iran, Washington, DC, 1979. Photograph by Marion S. Trikosko.

Cecily Zander is an assistant professor of history at Texas Woman’s University and a senior fellow at the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. She is the author of ...

Joshua D. Farrington is Assistant Professor of History at Bluegrass Community and Technical College. Civil rights parade at the 1964 Republican National Convention in San Francisco. Photograph by ...

An article from the April 1953 issue of Good Housekeeping. [Proquest] Polio, short for poliomyelitis, infects the intestinal tract. It can then travel to the brain stem, where it halts lung ...

Barbara Weinstein is professor of Latin American History at NYU. In 2007, she served as president of the American Historical Association. Her books include The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850-1920, and ...

James A.S. Sunderland is a Research Fellow at the Woolf Institute in Cambridge and a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge. His DPhil, from Merton College, Oxford ...

An engraving attributing John Wilkes Booth’s assassination of Abraham Lincoln to the influence of Knights of the Golden Circle. [Library of Congress] In the summer of 1859, several stock actors ...