Nicole Nehrig is a clinical and research psychologist and a passionate knitter and textile crafter living in Brooklyn, New York. She holds a PhD in clinical psychology. Scene from the Bayeux Tapestry: ...

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 ...

Julie Greene is professor of history at the University of Maryland, College Park. Workers at the Panama Canal, 1913. Photograph by Harris & Ewing. [Library of Congress] A young man named Edgar ...

On a chilly night in the spring of 1934, a 27-year old lawyer and future member of Congress named Robert F. Jones took a ride out to Henry Tapscott’s farm a few miles east of Lima, Ohio. Surrounded by ...

Crystal R. Sanders is associate professor of African American studies at Emory University. In July 2022, just days after Americans celebrated Independence Day, President Joseph Biden presented the ...

Emma Maggie Solberg is an associate professor of medieval English literature at Bowdoin College in Maine. She has published on bookworms, the Virgin Mary, and poetry. She is at work on a new project ...

Ronald L. Feinman is the author of Assassinations, Threats, and the American Presidency (Rowman Littlefield Publishers, 2015, Paperback Edition 2017). As the presidential campaign of 2024 becomes the ...

A little over twenty years ago, the New-York Historical Society mounted “Without Sanctuary,” a remarkable exhibition of photographs of lynchings in the American South. The images of mobs torturing and ...

To Lily Simpson, a 30-year-old from London who moved to Copenhagen about two years ago, the Danes have a refreshingly relaxed attitude toward nudity. People don’t generally bother hiding under a towel ...

When asked to think about the history of racism in the United States, many people think first about slavery and segregation in the South. There's often less focus on the racism that existed, and ...

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Doug Gold is a retired broadcaster with a passion for historical and fact-based stories, and the author of Fun Is a Serious Business, a nonfiction account of More FM’s David-versus-Goliath success ...