Interned Japanese-Americans produced newspapers to chronicle the stories and experiences of their community in a time of...
In 1911, the Dillingham Commission set a half-century precedent for screening out ‘undesirable’ newcomers. The Dillingham Commission...
Seeking out the histories and communities that existed before Route 66 and that survive still today. By...
The president and his Seneca friend Ely Parker wanted Native Americans to gain citizenship, but their efforts...
Europeans, speaking Spanish, Italian and French, had to communicate with indigenous peoples through Nahuatl, the lingua franca...
Archaeologists interested in what the skull trophies may tell about a tumultuous time of shifting political power....
World War II brought about a new deal for veterans. Introduction In the early morning hours of...
Recruits in the first African-American Marine Corps trained at Montford Point, eventually ending the military’s longstanding policy...
Debates over Congress’s limited legal enforcement options go back decades. By Michael Stern, J.D. The conflict between...
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,...
Remainders of Crete’s extraordinary past are scattered all over the island. Introduction As the cradle of European Civilization and...
When it comes to the overhead cranes, dropped loads are the biggest and the most dangerous safety...
Research has found ways to detect deepfakes through flaws that can’t be fixed easily by the fakers....
People fall for fake photos regardless of whether they seem to come from Facebook or The New...
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...
Webster saw himself as a saviour of the American language. In the United States, the name Noah...
Charting the evolution of Old English through the 700 years during which it was written and spoken....
This projected halt is a first in modern history. For the first time in modern history, 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.”...
A 16th-century folk art was her passport from Sicily to Upstate New York. By Kathleen GarrettActress The...
My great-great grandmother missed the gentle, green valleys of Germany, but our Jewish family needed a new...
Where does economic power come from? Does it exist independently of the law? It seems obvious, even...
Objects, flora, and fauna from these faraway lands were shipped back to Europe where many people perceived...
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...