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 ...

The origins of the Electoral College are entwined with slavery, but not in the way that recent accounts have suggested.

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

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

Cecily Zander is an assistant professor of history at Texas Woman’s University and a senior fellow at the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. She is the author of The ...

Joshua D. Farrington is Assistant Professor of History at Bluegrass Community and Technical College. Civil rights parade at the 1964 Republican National Convention in San Francisco. Photograph by ...

On the test case that provoked the courts to decide whether the federal government had jurisdiction to exercise American criminal law over Native peoples on Native lands. by Keith Richotte Jr. Keith ...

An article from the April 1953 issue of Good Housekeeping. [Proquest] Polio, short for poliomyelitis, infects the intestinal tract. It can then travel to the brain stem, where it halts lung function ...

To see what the first Thanksgiving was like you have to go to: Texas. Texans claim the first Thanksgiving in America actually took place in little San Elizario, a community near El Paso, in 1598 -- ...

Edward O’Donnell is an Associate Professor of History at Holy Cross College. He is the author of 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About Irish American History (Broadway Books). Learn more at ...

The Israeli historian Benny Morris did it again. Morris is not only a historian with impressive achievements but also an Israeli and international icon. One year after the publication of his book The ...