Recruits in the first African-American Marine Corps trained at Montford Point, eventually ending the military’s longstanding policy...
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Fake news and smoking guns made the Kansas town a symbol of frontier lawlessness. Everywhere American popular...
Before John Marshall, the Supreme Court had been a constitutional afterthought. No one in the founding generation...
Geophysicists use sound waves to build a picture of the magma and rock beneath this active volcano,...
Remembering what one of last century’s most courageous Jewish journalists taught us. By Peter Dreier In this...
Thanks to Ida Tarbell, we’re not to afraid to expose the shenanigans of the super-rich. Over the...
An entrepreneur, hunter, woodsman, scientist, and artist — John James Audubon, famous for his epic The Birds...
Geoarchaeology in action: the story of the River Tyburn from 11,500 years ago to the present. Originally...
“I believe that all Germany’s Jews are looking around the world, but can find nowhere to go.”...
Darius took personal command of his army for this encounter and led them to a resounding defeat....
It was here, against all odds, that Alexander defeated the forces of the Persian satraps of Asia...
The populist businessman known as “the barefoot Wall Street lawyer” took over his party’s convention in Philadelphia....
In the first year of the Civil War, Union General Benjamin Butler used the term “contraband of...
Outrage over the revolt that spurred the U.S. to deliver on a promise of the Revolution. The...
Presuming that immigration was a boon to national security, U.S. borders remained mostly open for the first...
Throughout the empire’s history, Khmer’s court was repeatedly concerned with putting down rebellions. By Rodrigo Quijada PlubinsHistorian...
Numerous excavations and a fairly large number of contemporary written documents give us a good picture of...
By Jennifer Ott / 11.05.2014 Introduction From canoes to container ships, a variety of vessels have carried...
Examining the connectedness and transnational interactions in the French spice project through the lens of Poivre’s informal...
The Persian Army became a multi-cultural force consisting of a fusion of soldiers from Persia or the...
By shielding British loyalists from persecution, the founder elevated principles over prejudice. The struggles of America’s cultural...
Reviewing the great surgical advances in the United States in the last century. By Dr. Yeu-Tsu Margaret...
Rasse des Noeux was a considerable bibliophile and man of letters. Why do we often sign and...
The mosque communicated that Kairouan would become a cosmopolitan metropolis under strong Muslim control, an important distinction...
General George Washington gave the orders to destroy towns and take prisoners in Sullivan’s Campaign, but her...
In the years after the French and Indian War, Britain’s strategies to keep its Native American alliances...
The poster became a cheap transmitter of these various messages and combined visual arts with psychological methods...
It’s really only in the past three decades that we’ve come to recognize the need to understand...
Any U.S. president would do well to heed the likes of Rachel Carson and her successors to...
She was a great observer of everyday life. Virginia Woolf, that great lover of language, would surely...