This is the second installment in Emma Garman's series about found documents, fiction, and history. Read the first installment here. The Name of the Rose has a straightforward enough premise. Brothers ...

Since the election of 2004, the mainstream media have emphasized the role of the religious right in providing the margin of victory for President Bush. In exchange for its political support, ...

Mr. Shor is a Professor in the History Department at Wayne State University where he teaches courses on 20th century US social/cultural history. The right-wing assault on Senator Barack Obama’s ...

In his Commentary essay, reprinted in HNN, Norman Podhoretz regrets that Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. had, in his unrelenting negative depiction of the Republican party, abandoned the liberalism he ...

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Children in wading pool at Cascade Playground, Seattle, 1939. All photos credit Seattle Museum of History and Industry.Stories about place are makeshift things. They are composed with the world’s ...

Those looking for guidance on how to chisel the federal debt today might re-examine how Thomas Jefferson and his Democratic-Republican party tackled the issue. Jefferson, who fought personal debt all ...

Bruce Schulman (Boston University) and Julian Zelizer (Princeton University) are the co-editors of Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s (Harvard University Press). Why publish a ...