Fears that Russian intelligence is actively working to undermine Western democracy—in the United States, Europe and around the globe—are running high. Department of Justice Special Counsel Robert S.

Roy E. Finkenbine is Professor of History and Director of the Black Abolitionist Archive at the University of Detroit Mercy. He is currently engaged in a book project tentatively titled Fugitive ...

Jeff Forret is professor and Distinguished Faculty Research Fellow at Lamar University. His latest book is Williams’ Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and His Cargo of Black Convicts (Cambridge ...

Carolyn Barske Crawford is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Alabama. Chestnut Trees in Bloom, by William Henry Holmes. [Smithsonian American Art Museum] At one time, more than ...

John Thelin is a professor at the University of Kentucky and author of A History of American Higher Education (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019). In 2018, he joined with Patricia Albjerg Graham, ...

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 ...

Elizabeth Varon is Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History at the University of Virginia, and author of Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War. "Ever since the Lee ...

"Wabash Cannonball" is a light-hearted yet serious country-music song. It celebrates a train that went past my house at the southern edge of Decatur, Illinois, throughout my childhood. Maybe for that ...

Jeffrey Normand Bourdon has published scholarly articles on the Jacksonian era, Progressive era, and Gilded Age front porch campaigns. He currently teaches history and writing at the University of ...

Emily Frazier is an assistant professor of human geography at Missouri State University, and her research focuses on refugee resettlement in the U.S. Laura E. Alexander is associate professor of ...

World War II in Europe was the cause of innumerable atrocities against civilians: for instance, the Shoah, Allied and Axis carpet bombing, the destruction of Warsaw, and the cruelties of enforced ...

Madeline Grimm is a writer and editor based in New York City. She has written for outlets including Lapham’s Quarterly, The Drift, and the Cleveland Review of Books. The Muse: History, by Camille ...