Famous for his books about the founders, Gordon S. Wood’s true legacy may have been about showing how futile their efforts ...

Roy E. Finkenbine is Professor of History and Director of the Black Abolitionist Archive at the University of Detroit Mercy. He is currently engaged in a book project tentatively titled Fugitive ...

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 ...

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 ...

Donne Levy is a retired community college history instructor. In the mid-1970s, the religious right became heavily involved in electoral politics and a driving force within the Republican Party. By ...

Zara Anishanslin is an associate professor of history and art history at the University of Delaware, a postdoctoral fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of ...

Aaron Leonard is a writer and journalist currently completing, “Heavy Radicals - The FBI's Secret War Against America's Maoists: The Revolutionary Union/Revolutionary Communist Party 1968-1980,” with ...

Timothy Messer-Kruse is professor of cultural studies at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. His latest book is Slavery’s Fugitives and the Making of the United States Constitution. Abbot Academy ...

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 ...

Law-and-order rhetoric has a long history in U.S. politics. Julia Azari, a Marquette University professor of political science, said the phrase is “often a way to talk about race without talking about ...

Mark Bickhard is Henry R. Luce Professor in Cognitive Robotics and the Philosophy of Knowledge in the Department of Psychology at Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA). Comparisons between Trump(ism) and ...

Dr. Lawrence Wittner (http://lawrenceswittner.com) is Professor of History emeritus at SUNY/Albany. His latest book is a satirical novel about university ...