Elizabeth R. Varon is the Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History at the University of Virginia, and author of six books, most recently Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the ...

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.

Barbara Weinstein is professor of Latin American History at NYU. In 2007, she served as president of the American Historical Association. Her books include The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850-1920, and The ...

James A.S. Sunderland is a Research Fellow at the Woolf Institute in Cambridge and a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge. His DPhil, from Merton College, Oxford, ...

Santiago Flórez is a bilingual Colombian journalist, educator, illustrator, and anthropologist based in New York City. Currently, he works at Science Friday. He has an MA in bilingual journalism from ...

My new book, A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging centers on the story of the 2020 fire that destroyed the largest refugee camp in Europe on the Greek island of Lesvos, and the six young ...

Joshua Clark Davis is a historian at the University of Baltimore currently writing Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back for ...

Chris Monday is associate professor of Russian History at Dongseo University, South Korea. In 1949, Mikhail Putin visits a worker club at the Red Vyborzhets factory in Leningrad with his former ...

Elena Conis is a historian of medicine at Berkeley and the author of Vaccine Nation (Chicago, 2015) and the forthcoming book How to Sell a Poison (Bold Type, 2022). Many Americans have run out of ...

Gary Ostrower is recently retired as Professor of History at Alfred University. He has also taught at Vassar College, the University of Pennyslvania, and the University of Aarhus (Denmark) as a ...

Donne Levy is a retired community college history instructor. In the mid-1970s, the religious right became heavily involved in electoral politics and a driving force within the Republican Party. By ...

A mob burns St. Augustine's Catholic Church in Philadelphia, 1844, from John B. Perry A Full and Complete Account of the Late Awful Riots in Philadelphia Former U.S. senator Rick Santorum has ...