It wasn’t until the months after the fire that the attributes of modern charity as a profession were widely articulated to a large audience of Americans, through an unprecedented partnership between ...

Two women shopping in a grocery store under a banner reading: “Happy birthday America, there's no place else we'd rather be!” commemorating the United States Bicentennial. Photograph by Marion S.

Marc Egnal is an emeritus professor at York University, Toronto. He is the author, among other books, of A Mighty Empire: The Origins of the American Revolution and Challenging the Myths of U.S.

Barney Hagan holds a DPhil in American history from the University of Oxford. He specializes in U.S.-Latin American relations, particularly during the Civil War era. The American Mosquito That Just ...

In the 19th century the British were heavily involved in trafficking opium distilled from the juice of poppy seeds growing in fields controlled by the British Raj. The market was China. The Chinese ...

Timothy Messer-Kruse is professor of cultural studies at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. His latest book is Slavery’s Fugitives and the Making of the United States Constitution. Abbot Academy ...

Marina Manoukian is a writer and artist. She received her Masters in English Philology at Freie Universität Berlin. A Ford truck is loaded with ivory tusks in Essex, Connecticut, 19th century.

Barbara Weinstein is professor of Latin American History at NYU. In 2007, she served as president of the American Historical Association. Her books include The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850-1920, and The ...

Stephen Pyne is an emeritus professor at Arizona State University. His most recent book is Five Suns: A Fire History of Mexico. Photo of 1908 fire in New Hampshire. The 1908 fires ranged along the U.S ...

Olivia Paschal is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Virginia, and a journalist and writer. Resources of the Soil (Mural Study, Ukiah, California Post Office), by Ben Cunningham, c. 1938.

Joshua Clark Davis is a historian at the University of Baltimore currently writing Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back for ...

Victoria Bateman is author of the acclaimed book The Sex Factor: How Women Made the West Rich and is a Fellow in Economics at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. She is known for ...