Pelvic Obsessions by Lynne Feeley How the “obstetrical dilemma” and the dark history of pelvimetry met in the present.

Plantation or slave labor camp? Let’s face it: a new generation of scholarship has changed the way we understand American history, particularly slavery, capitalism, and the Civil War. Our ...

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.

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 ...

In an interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates, who backs reparations, Obama said "it is hard to think of any society in human history in which a majority population has said that as a consequence of ...

He was accused of treason. Only the hunger for reconciliation saved him. Seven weeks after Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House, Judge John C. Underwood demanded justice, while ...

Mark Tauger teaches history at West Virginia University. This book has new information on Ukrainian culture in the 1920s, Ukrainian émigré historiography of the famine after World War II, the ...

The Sixties counterculture, its beliefs and practices, its odyssey into the Seventies, and its many legacies as it became integrated into mainstream culture help explain the United States today.

The desire to achieve a particular cosmetic look binds Lady Gaga to the Egyptian pharaohs, even though they seem worlds apart.

It’s understandable why earlier generations of scholars ranked him high. They overlooked his racism, hostility to women’s suffrage, and religious zealotry. But today?

The teacher strikes we saw in 2018 have their roots in an overlooked movement that began in the 1960s.

Richard Nixon addressing troops in South Vietnam. Via The New Nixon."The Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam," signed January 27, 1973, never looked like it would live up to ...