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.

Revisiting the Agrarian-Distributists and their fabrication of an American past.

From the beginning, Longfellow made a point to include female VLSC lifesavers at exhibitions and carnivals, believing that women and girls in the audience would be inspired to see members of their ...

The history of the United States is a history of settler colonialism.

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

Perhaps the greatest side plot in Season 3 of Netflix’s Bridgerton involves the sexual education of the Featherington sisters. Overbearing mama Lady Portia Featherington (Polly Walker) is ...

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

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 ...

On September 2, 1858, speaking in Clinton, Illinois, during the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates, Abraham Lincoln made one of his most famous statements: “You can fool all the people some of the ...

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 ...

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 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.