Asheesh Kapur Siddique is an assistant professor of history at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and the author of The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern ...

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 ...

Perhaps the greatest side plot in Season 3 of Netflix’s Bridgerton involves the sexual education of the Featherington sisters. Overbearing mama Lady Portia Featherington (Polly Walker) is desperate ...

Matthew Dennis is Professor Emeritus of History and Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon, and the author of American Relics and the Politics of Public Memory. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse ...

Zachary Jonathan Jacobson is the author of On Nixon’s Madness: An Emotional History (March 2023). Richard Nixon discusses Vietnam with National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger and Deputy National ...

H.W. Brands is the Jack S. Blanton, Sr. chair of history at the University of Texas and the author of Reagan: The Life (Anchor, 2016). Ben Barnes (l) and John Connally (c) meet with Egyptian President ...

Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower is Professor of Foundations of Education at the Virginia Tech School of Education and the author of Unpacking School Lunch: Understanding the Hidden Politics of School Food.

On an eminent scholarly panel previewing the 2011-2015 Civil War sesquicentennial, former National Park Service chief historian Dwight T. Pitcaithley asked, “Where’s the national monument to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alan Singer is a historian and professor in the Hofstra University Department of Teaching, Learning and Technology. He is the author of New York’s Grand Emancipation Jubilee: Essays on Slavery, ...

Ben Railton is Professor of English Studies and Coordinator of American Studies at Fitchburg (MA) State University and President of the New England American Studies Association Council. His book Of ...