It wasn’t until the months after the fire that the attributes of modern charity as a profession were widely articulated to a large audience of Americans, through an unprecedented partnership between ...

Headstones of the 12 Unknown Continentals of the Camden Fourteen at the Old Presbyterian Cemetery in Camden, South Carolina. [FHD Forensics] For the ordinary soldier of the American Revolution, ...

Two women shopping in a grocery store under a banner reading: “Happy birthday America, there's no place else we'd rather be!” commemorating the United States Bicentennial. Photograph by Marion S.

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 ...

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.

Back in the days when only aristocrats and spiritual leaders could hold political and cultural authority, there was no pride in claiming to be self-made. Instead, an assertion of self-made success was ...

Corinna Barrett Lain is S.D. Roberts & Sandra Moore Professor of Law at University of Richmond School of Law. We know how to euthanize beloved pets — veterinarians do it every day. And we know how ...

Stephen Pyne is an emeritus professor at Arizona State University. His most recent book is Five Suns: A Fire History of Mexico. Photo of 1908 fire in New Hampshire. The 1908 fires ranged along the U.S ...

Joshua Clark Davis is a historian at the University of Baltimore currently writing Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back for ...

Steve Babson is a labor educator, union activist, and history PhD living and working in Detroit. He is the author of the just-published Forgotten Populists: When Farmers Turned Left to Save Democracy.

Carl T. Bogus, Professor of Law Emeritus at Roger Williams University, is author of Madison’s Militia: The Hidden History of the Second Amendment (Oxford University Press 2023). Illustration of a ...

Chris Monday is associate professor of Russian History at Dongseo University, South Korea. In 1949, Mikhail Putin visits a worker club at the Red Vyborzhets factory in Leningrad with his former ...