Corinna Barrett Lain is S.D. Roberts & Sandra Moore Professor of Law at University of Richmond School of Law. We know how to euthanize beloved pets — veterinarians do it every day. And we know how ...

Eran Zelnik teaches history at Chico State University in California. His book American Laughter, American Fury: Humor and the Making of a White Man's Democracy, 1750-1850, came out earlier this year ...

Bronwen Everill teaches writing at Princeton and is a Research Affiliate at the Laboratory for the Economics of Africa’s Past in the Department of Economics at Stellenbosch University. She is the ...

In Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash (1992), a novel that channeled perfectly the libertarian imagination of the post–Cold War moment, the territory once known as the United States has been shattered into ...

Andrew C. Isenberg is the Hall Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of Kansas. John Quincy Adams, by Philip Haas, 1843. [National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution] On ...

Espionage has always been with us, but its rapid growth over the past century may have undermined trust in government.

Mr. Reeves taught history for over thirty years at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, in Kenosha. He is the author of many books including, A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy. Since ...

Mr. Foner is a professor of history at Columbia University and past president of both the AHA and the OAH. This article was written in 2003. In 1948, Roy F. Nichols, a distinguished scholar of the ...

Edwin Black is the author of "IBM and the Holocaust" and "War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race," from which the following article is drawn. Hitler and his ...

To see what the first Thanksgiving was like you have to go to: Texas. Texans claim the first Thanksgiving in America actually took place in little San Elizario, a community near El Paso, in 1598 -- ...