Toward the end of the 19th century, as job opportunities expanded for women and people of color, it became harder to find a cook who was willing to work long and hard hours for limited wages.

“We need to get the bastards out of here.” It’s a statement that could have been uttered by many American presidents about a wide array of groups through history.

Pence and Sessions are but two prominent Americans in and out of politics today who continue refueling a centuries-old controversy over the role of religion in American life.

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Let’s begin with a quick summary: President Lyndon B. Johnson inherited the presidency in November, 1963 after the terrible events in Dallas.

Is it Muslim or Moslem?When Baby Boomers were children it was Moslem. The American Heritage Dictionary (1992) noted,"Moslem is the form predominantly preferred in journalism and popular usage ...

Nineteenth-century British depiction of a cholera outbreak. Credit: University of St. Andrews. Because it appeared in the midst of the ongoing debate over the workings of the Affordable Care Act ...

The Northeast caught fire this fall, in a way that recalls its past. History has some lessons about how to manage the region’s fire seasons to come.

A few years ago, while researching trans life in the 1930s for my new book The Other Olympians, I stumbled across the headline “Sex Repeal!Science Solves the Riddle of Man-Women Wonders.” The ...

W. J. Rorabaugh, professor of History at the University of Washington in Seattle, is the author of American Hippies (Cambridge University Press), which offers a brief overview of the Sixties ...

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The series explores what happens when a fictional French village during World War 2 is occupied by Nazis. Some people resist. Others collaborate.