Eric Eisner is a PhD student in the Johns Hopkins History Department. David B. Froomkin is an assistant professor of law at the University of Houston Law Center. The reigning mythology of the United ...

Marina Manoukian is a writer and artist. She received her Masters in English Philology at Freie Universität Berlin. A Ford truck is loaded with ivory tusks in Essex, Connecticut, 19th century.

Jimmy Carter is known for his defense of human rights worldwide. But in 1979, he threatened to deport thousands of Iranian student protesters.

A UC Berkeley student picket supports a strike protesting demonstrators’ arrests, 1964. Photograph by Don Kechely. [Online Archive of California] For over a century, U.S. politicians have made ...

In the 1910 World Heavyweight Championship, London cheered on Jim Jeffries as he faced off with Jack Johnson, the first Black heavyweight champion.

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Haider Khan is Professor of International and Development Economics at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver. Events in Egypt have unsettled the media pundits and ...

Andrew Feffer is professor of history and co-director of Film Studies at Union College in Schenectady, New York. He is currently writing a book on the impact of the Rapp-Coudert investigation on the ...

K.C. Johnson is professor of history at Brooklyn College, CUNY. He is the author of numerous books and articles on U.S. foreign relations and politics, including All the Way with LBJ: The 1964 ...

Mr. Jones is adjunct instructor of history at Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina. Defense counsel Ron Radosh suggests that a case"based on a highly legalistic and a-historical ...

Jim Sleeper is a lecturer in politics at Yale University. There's something valid in "great man" versions of history, including those focusing on the diabolically great: Without Adolph Hitler, it's ...