Slipper or no slipper, Milford’s biography is still one of, if not the, most important about Zelda Fitzgerald. It played a unique role in redefining Zelda to account for her own creative output — her ...

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 ...

Fears that Russian intelligence is actively working to undermine Western democracy—in the United States, Europe and around the globe—are running high. Department of Justice Special Counsel Robert S.

Dr. Rafael Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, and the author of The Jews Should Keep Quiet: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and ...

Jeff Forret is professor and Distinguished Faculty Research Fellow at Lamar University. His latest book is Williams’ Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and His Cargo of Black Convicts (Cambridge ...

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 ...

Roy E. Finkenbine is Professor of History and Director of the Black Abolitionist Archive at the University of Detroit Mercy. He is currently engaged in a book project tentatively titled Fugitive ...

Throughout history the bureaucratic centralization of Empire, and its foreign policy of Imperialism, has inevitably led to moral, cultural, economic and, eventually even military decline. When the ...

World War II in Europe was the cause of innumerable atrocities against civilians: for instance, the Shoah, Allied and Axis carpet bombing, the destruction of Warsaw, and the cruelties of enforced ...

Soldiers sing at the end of the day in Vietnam, January 1968. [National Archives] While not entirely wrong, the Hollywood version is too loud. It drowns out a history that was more complicated — and ...

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: ...

Unfortunately, Heilbroner later qualified his praise of Mises in a way that shows he missed the point. In his book 21st Century Capitalism Heilbroner said that Mises was right that socialism was ...