Much of Mackinac Island was designated as a national park, but was too expensive for the government to maintain, so it was transferred to the State of Michigan. Jewish-led Palestine solidarity ...

Carolyn Barske Crawford is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Alabama. Chestnut Trees in Bloom, by William Henry Holmes. [Smithsonian American Art Museum] At one time, more than ...

Madeline Grimm is a writer and editor based in New York City. She has written for outlets including Lapham’s Quarterly, The Drift, and the Cleveland Review of Books. The Muse: History, by Camille ...

Camille Walsh is an associate professor of American and Ethnic Studies and Law, Economics and Public Policy and the director of the Masters in Policy Studies program at University of Washington ...

Eric Eisner is a PhD student in the Johns Hopkins History Department. David B. Froomkin is an assistant professor of law at the University of Houston Law Center. The reigning mythology of the United ...

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 ...

Julie Greene is professor of history at the University of Maryland, College Park. Workers at the Panama Canal, 1913. Photograph by Harris & Ewing. [Library of Congress] A young man named Edgar ...

Bronwen Everill is the author of Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance, and Not Made By Slaves: Ethical Capitalism in the Age of Abolition. She teaches writing at Princeton and is a Research ...

Soldiers sing at the end of the day in Vietnam, January 1968. [National Archives] While not entirely wrong, the Hollywood version is too loud. It drowns out a history that was more complicated — and ...

On April 9, 1984, the government of Nicaragua filed suit with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague alleging that the United States had committed “massive violations … of its ...

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