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 ...

Lawrence S. Wittner is Professor of History Emeritus at SUNY/Albany and the author of Confronting the Bomb (Stanford University Press). Some of the 800 members of Women Strike for Peace who marched at ...

Chris Monday is associate professor of Russian History at Dongseo University, South Korea. In 1949, Mikhail Putin visits a worker club at the Red Vyborzhets factory in Leningrad with his former ...

Elena Conis is a historian of medicine at Berkeley and the author of Vaccine Nation (Chicago, 2015) and the forthcoming book How to Sell a Poison (Bold Type, 2022). Many Americans have run out of ...

Donne Levy is a retired community college history instructor. In the mid-1970s, the religious right became heavily involved in electoral politics and a driving force within the Republican Party. By ...

James Romm is the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics at Bard College in Annandale, New York, and the author of The Sacred Band: Three Hundred Theban Lovers Fighting to Save Greek Freedom ...

After nearly four years of the Trump administration, U.S. voters have a pretty good idea of the policies that the President and his Republican allies champion when it comes to America’s dealings with ...

Aaron J. Leonard is author of The Folk Singers and the Bureau: The FBI, the Folk Artists and the Suppression of the Communist Party USA, 1939-1956, (London: Repeater Books, September 2020), from which ...

Alan Singer is a historian and professor in the Hofstra University Department of Teaching, Learning and Technology. He is the author of New York’s Grand Emancipation Jubilee: Essays on Slavery, ...

We are writing to you today, in tandem with numerous others, to express our deep concern about the New York Times’ promotion of The 1619 Project, which first appeared in the pages of the New York ...

Ronald L. Feinman is the author of “Assassinations, Threats, and the American Presidency: From Andrew Jackson to Barack Obama” (Rowman Littlefield Publishers, August 2015). A paperback edition is now ...

A painting depicting the construction of a fort at Jamestown, close to Fort Comfort, from National Park Service Commemorating the 400th anniversary of what the English colonizer John Rolfe described ...