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 ...

While most Americans today would likely be hard put to name a modern-day conjure woman if asked, a caricature of one smiled warily at them from their kitchen cupboards for over a century: Aunt Jemima, ...

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.

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 ...

Camp Nathan Hale in Southfields, New York, 1943. Photograph by Gordon Parks. [Library of Congress] As summer camp season draws to a close, millions of children across the country will be headed home, ...

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 ...

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 ...

In April 1983, a commission convened by President Ronald Reagan’s education secretary, Terrel H. Bell, released a landmark report about the nation’s public education system, “A Nation at Risk: The ...

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 ...

Justin P. Coffey is Aaron Pembleton Chair in History at Quincy University. He is the author of Spiro Agnew and the Rise of the Republican Right (Praeger Press, 2015.) On election night 1960, Senator ...

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 ...