Brendan Hornbostel is a PhD candidate in the History Department at George Washington University. Their dissertation examines the history of the Metropolitan Police Department from the Civil War to ...

It was founded 250 years ago today—and, oddly, was promptly ordered to attack what is today its biggest base. Ubisoft was reportedly working on a game set after the Civil War era, but canceled it due ...

Eric Eisner is a PhD student in the Johns Hopkins History Department. David B. Froomkin is an assistant professor of law at the University of Houston Law Center. The reigning mythology of the United ...

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 ...

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 ...

Crystal R. Sanders is associate professor of African American studies at Emory University. In July 2022, just days after Americans celebrated Independence Day, President Joseph Biden presented the ...

For women, culture is split into two eras: before you could flash your breasts on camera during spring break for a modicum of fame, and after. For that, you can thank Joe Francis — a man who still ...

To Lily Simpson, a 30-year-old from London who moved to Copenhagen about two years ago, the Danes have a refreshingly relaxed attitude toward nudity. People don’t generally bother hiding under a towel ...

Jason Ulysses Rose is a PhD Candidate in history at Western Michigan University. In the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd, there were heavily contested debates about police reform. Sadly ...

James H. Barron is the author of The Greek Connection: The Life of Elias Demetracopoulos and the Untold Story of Watergate. It was a 1968 October Surprise story that might have changed the course of ...

David Carlin works on Climate Change for the UN Environment Program’s Finance Initiative (UNEP-FI). He leads a global project to help banks understand and assess the risks and opportunities brought ...

Ms. Cheng is a comparative race scholar, professor of English and American studies at Princeton, and author of The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief and Ornamentalism.