Andrew C. Isenberg is the Hall Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of Kansas. John Quincy Adams, by Philip Haas, 1843. [National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution ...

Eran Zelnik teaches history at Chico State University in California. His book American Laughter, American Fury: Humor and the Making of a White Man's Democracy, 1750-1850, came out earlier this ...

Corinna Barrett Lain is S.D. Roberts & Sandra Moore Professor of Law at University of Richmond School of Law. We know how to euthanize beloved pets — veterinarians do it every day. And we know ...

Camille Walsh is an associate professor of American and Ethnic Studies and Law, Economics and Public Policy and the director of the Masters in Policy Studies program at University of Washington ...

Bronwen Everill teaches writing at Princeton and is a Research Affiliate at the Laboratory for the Economics of Africa’s Past in the Department of Economics at Stellenbosch University.

Edwin Black is the author of "IBM and the Holocaust" and "War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race," from which the following article is drawn. Hitler and his ...

In Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash (1992), a novel that channeled perfectly the libertarian imagination of the post–Cold War moment, the territory once known as the United States has been ...

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 ...

Mr. Bangs obtained his doctorate at the Rijksuniversiteit, Leiden, in 1976. He is a former Chief Curator of the Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, MA. Image via Wiki Commons. Setting people straight ...