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 ...

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.

Victoria Bateman is author of the acclaimed book The Sex Factor: How Women Made the West Rich and is a Fellow in Economics at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. She is known for ...

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 ...

Jeremy C. Young is the senior manager of free expression and education at PEN America. Jonathan Friedman is the director of free expression and education at PEN America. Some of the opposition stems ...

Elena Conis is a historian of medicine at Berkeley and the author of Vaccine Nation (Chicago, 2015) and the forthcoming book How to Sell a Poison (Bold Type, 2022). Many Americans have run out of ...

Daniel Koch is the author of Ralph Waldo Emerson in Europe: Class, Race and Revolution in the Making of an American Thinker (Bloomsbury, London, 2012). He is working on a new book about the history of ...