Marina Manoukian is a writer and artist. She received her Masters in English Philology at Freie Universität Berlin. A Ford truck is loaded with ivory tusks in Essex, Connecticut, 19th century.

A UC Berkeley student picket supports a strike protesting demonstrators’ arrests, 1964. Photograph by Don Kechely. [Online Archive of California] For over a century, U.S. politicians have made ...

How did women in 19th-century Europe learn about the birds and the bees?

Haider Khan is Professor of International and Development Economics at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver. Events in Egypt have unsettled the media pundits and ...

A Saudi-French archaeological team has unearthed in Najran what might be considered the oldest inscription in the Arabic alphabet, said a spokesman from the French Foreign Ministry. “The epigrapher ...

K.C. Johnson is professor of history at Brooklyn College, CUNY. He is the author of numerous books and articles on U.S. foreign relations and politics, including All the Way with LBJ: The 1964 ...

Mr. Mayer is Professor of History, Augustana College. The Vatican is out to monkey with Galileo again. Many might think it had subjected him to enough tender ministrations already, from his two trials ...

Mr. Jones is the author of the just-published book, The Bay of Pigs (Oxford University Press). On April 17, 1961, a small band of 1500 Cuban exiles invaded their former homeland at the Bay of Pigs in ...

Mr. Moreau, the author of Schoolbook Nation, earned his Ph.D. in American culture at the University of Michigan. He teaches history at a private high school in New York City. Disputes over history ...

Jimmy Carter is known for his defense of human rights worldwide. But in 1979, he threatened to deport thousands of Iranian ...

On the test case that provoked the courts to decide whether the federal government had jurisdiction to exercise American criminal law over Native peoples on Native lands. by Keith Richotte Jr. Keith ...