After the Civil War, Black voters faced danger and violence—and they fought for political power against all odds.
On Vancouver Island, privately owned forest poses a unique challenge for the Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group, with territories ...
Composer Melissa Dunphy discovered an unsolved murder at her home from 144 years ago. She brings her back to life with “Alice Tierney.” ...
The Prohibition era in the United States, spanning from 1920 to 1933, is often characterized by speakeasies, gangsters, and ...
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The system is rigged: Students from families in the top 1 percent of earners were 77 times more likely to attend an Ivy ...
Maria Herrick Bray lived a life of activity and influence through the second half of the 19th century and opening decades of the 20th, a time when most women had little opportunity to make their mark ...
World War I gave rise to a heated century-long debate about its causes. In Disputing Disaster, Perry Anderson surveys this ...
The Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) is pleased to announce that Dr. Victoria Abrahamyan has been chosen to receive the SAS ...
The original Mont Pelerin Society meeting in 1947 featured Ludwig von Mises, whose warnings about the dangers of socialism ...
From baseball in the 1800s to modern day college football, alcohol is big business — but not without problems.