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 ...

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 ...

Hugh Thompson Jr., a former Army helicopter pilot honored for rescuing Vietnamese civilians from his fellow GIs during the My Lai massacre, died early Friday. He was 62. Thompson, whose role in 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 ...

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 ...