Pence and Sessions are but two prominent Americans in and out of politics today who continue refueling a centuries-old controversy over the role of religion in American life.

Avery Blankenship is a PhD Candidate in the Department of English at Northeastern University. Her dissertation, “Marginal Spaces: The Cookbook in the Nineteenth-Century American Political ...

W. J. Rorabaugh, professor of History at the University of Washington in Seattle, is the author of American Hippies (Cambridge University Press), which offers a brief overview of the Sixties ...

Donald Yacovone is an Associate at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Studies, Harvard University and an Athenæum member. Oompa-Loompa illustration by Joseph Schindelman ...

The Northeast caught fire this fall, in a way that recalls its past. History has some lessons about how to manage the region’s fire seasons to come.

Mass Grave at Wounded Knee This paper, written under the title, “U.S. Settler-Colonialism and Genocide Policies,” was delivered at the Organization of American Historians 2015 Annual Meeting ...

Launch of a V2 in Peenemünde; photo taken four seconds after taking off from test stand, Summer 1943 The journalist Annie Jacobsen recently published Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence ...

Comparisons between Trump (ism) and Fascism have become frequent, and with good reason. These comparisons are strongest between Trump and Mussolini — stronger than with Hitler and Nazi-ism ...

A few years ago, while researching trans life in the 1930s for my new book The Other Olympians, I stumbled across the headline “Sex Repeal! Science Solves the Riddle of Man-Women Wonders.” The ...

“There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish … it was so fragile.” So says the dying Emperor Marcus Aurelius at the ...

Is it Muslim or Moslem?When Baby Boomers were children it was Moslem. The American Heritage Dictionary (1992) noted,"Moslem is the form predominantly preferred in journalism and popular usage ...

Devin Thomas O’Shea’s writing is in Chicago Quarterly Review, The Nation, Boulevard, Slate, The Emerson Review, and elsewhere. He is represented by Erik Hane at Headwater Literary.