Lothrop Stoddard believed that the concept of “natural equality” between people was a threat to America. In the 1920s, it was hardly a fringe idea.

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 ...

John Murphy, in the Balt Sun (June 30, 2004): GOREE ISLAND, Senegal - Standing in a narrow doorway opening onto the Atlantic Ocean, tour guide Aladji Ndiaye asked a visitor to this Senegalese island's ...

Robert A. Gross is James L. and Shirley A. Draper Professor of Early American History Emeritus at the University of Connecticut. His first book, The Minutemen and Their World received the Bancroft ...

Catherine Phipps is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol. She has a doctorate from the University of Oxford and has published a book on Histories of Sex Work Around the World.

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, ...

Lauren Duval is assistant professor of history at the University of Oklahoma and author of The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence. Mount ...

Sociologist James W. Loewen is the author of "Lies My Teacher Told Me." Like our textbooks, this monument to Jefferson Davis in Richmond, VA, mystifies the Confederate cause. Dear David, Recently you ...

Philip Kadish is a professor of American Studies at Pace University in New York City. The author of The Great White Hoax, he lives in New York City. James A. Garfield, c. 1880. Photograph by Napoleon ...

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 ...