A story of petticoats and power.
What is it, why do we have it, and why hasn't it changed? Born from a rushed, fraught, imperfect process, the origins and evolution of the Electoral College might surprise you and make you think differently about not only this upcoming presidential election, but our democracy as a whole.
It’s more glaring than Pearl Harbor and 9/11—and it’s all the fault of Donald Trump’s leadership.
Two industrial workers, members of Detroit’s League of Revolutionary Black Workers, share experiences with political organizing and education.
The U.S. presence in Libya seems by all accounts to be about war. The editors of The Nation request that if America is still the Republic it says it is — declarations of war should be left to congress as outlined in the Constitution.
As the coronavirus spreads across the globe, so too does racism.
Welcome to Belgium, where Francophones and Flemings ignore each other, the King needs two names, and anyone can slip through the cracks — because no one calls it home.
When sex work was considered a "necessary evil," legal brothels provided certain protections for the women who worked there.
The famously strait-laced 17th-century sectarians who helped settle America weren’t nearly as priggish as you might think, a leading Puritan scholar says.
As World War II loomed, the military turned to U-M experts to fight a deadly enemy: Influenza
Yarovaya Law. The Death Of The Russian Constitution.
A historian explains why we keep comparing today to the Gilded Age.
Family Court went wholly virtual on Thursday and staffing has been whittled to a skeleton crew, with just three judges handling all five boroughs via Skype hearings, down from the usual four to fiv…
He was an awful president, exactly the reason we should keep his name at Princeton.
The "Rest Cure" for women is notorious. But the "West Cure" for men, though little known today, is a fundamental part of American mythology.
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND THE DEBATE OVER SLAVERY When Thomas Jefferson included a passage attacking slavery in his draft of the Declaration of Independence it initiated the most intense debate among the delegates gathered at Philadelphia in the spring and early summer of 1776. … Read More(1776) The Deleted Passage of the Declaration of Independence
OPINION | “Leave” vote could create spillover effects in global markets.
Juneteenth is an often overlooked event in our nation’s history. On June 19, 1865, Union troops freed enslaved African Americans in Galveston Bay and across Texas some two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
After World War II, Jewish refugees found they could never return to their native land—a sentiment that some echo today
We have an image of puritans as cold, severe, hyper-strict and religious people, and while that’s not entirely false, it’s also not entirely true. From the very beginning, early Americans were thin…
What do we owe the Enlightenment?
The Frontier Wars refer to conflicts between Europeans and Aboriginal people including battles, acts of resistance and open massacres.
If you have no idea which wave of feminism we’re in right now, read this.
Mental hygiene films of the postwar era gave advice to American teens—and parroted specific cultural values.
In the 19th century, butter production became a valuable way for women to profit off their farms-- and it soon became a major agricultural product.
The Puritan minister originated a principle that remains contentious to this day—separation of church and state
Writer Tarek Osman traces many of the current problems in the Middle East to the secret Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916
The United States' impoverished tribes cannot buy or sell reservation land. Changing federal policy could improve their fortunes.
A brief article on the history of one of the most renowned medieval landmarks of England, specifically Nottingham Castle.
The extreme paralysis that has become the norm in Washington is almost never seen in Western European democracies. Political scientists say there are lessons the U.S. can take from Europe.
Considering the single most important question about racial restitution: How would it work?
Kim Mix, a professor of biological sciences, describes the challenges of educating students about the coronavirus when the imbalance between rapid-fire news and vetted scientific information has created a dangerous infodemic.
I am skeptical about "The Enlightenment." It is an ideologically loaded term that implies that much of the western intellectual tradition before The
Stories about witches are stories about women, power, and harm.
Middle class members of the New York Female Moral Reform Society visited brothels to save women from sin. What they actually encountered surprised them.
Here are some of the things the Royal Family can't do.
For years, the trauma of the atomic bomb was hardly talked about in Japan. The H-bomb test at Bikini Atoll changed that.
Vladimir Putin’s rewriting of the history of World War II set the stage for his war in Ukraine.
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