Gladiator and Gladiator II have little to do with the Roman past. But they have a great deal to do with the American present.

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.

Donald Yacovone is an Associate at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Studies, Harvard University and an Athenæum member. Oompa-Loompa illustration by Joseph Schindelman ...

The Sixties counterculture, its beliefs and practices, its odyssey into the Seventies, and its many legacies as it became integrated into mainstream culture help explain the United States today.

Rethinking the job of history — and the American Historical Association — after the veto of the Gaza “scholasticide” resolution.

The forces limiting government power in the area of health, the proponents of American exceptionalism, and the rejection of the needs of the poor won their day in nineteenth-century American ...

The chilling details of the U.S. military's plan to use the very scientists who had been essential to Hitler’s war effort.

He was accused of treason. Only the hunger for reconciliation saved him. Seven weeks after Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House, Judge John C. Underwood demanded justice, while ...

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 ...

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

Mark Bickhard is Henry R. Luce Professor in Cognitive Robotics and the Philosophy of Knowledge in the Department of Psychology at Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA). Comparisons between Trump(ism ...

"Was Hitler Jewish?" is a frequently asked question but it is one that requires clarification to answer correctly. In essence, it encompasses two related sub-questions: "did Hitler have Jewish ...