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 ...

Mr. Ramsey is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Idaho. The so-called “culture wars,” though maddeningly difficult to define, have begun to set previously complacent Americans ...

David Carlin works on Climate Change for the UN Environment Program’s Finance Initiative (UNEP-FI). He leads a global project to help banks understand and assess the risks and opportunities brought ...

Ken Lawrence founded the Deep South People’s History Project in 1973. Today he studies, collects, and writes about aviation history, air transport, and air mail, which are occasional subjects of his ...

Roy E. Finkenbine is Professor of History and Director of the Black Abolitionist Archive at the University of Detroit Mercy. He is currently engaged in a book project tentatively titled Fugitive ...

Jeff Forret is professor and Distinguished Faculty Research Fellow at Lamar University. His latest book is Williams’ Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and His Cargo of Black Convicts (Cambridge ...

R. B. Bernstein teaches political science at City College of New York. His most recent book is The Education of John Adams (Oxford University Press). Watercolor, Adams family home, 1798. Collection of ...

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 ...

Mr. Berthold is a former professor of history at the University of New Mexico. Prior to 11 September 2001 I was simply a professor of classical history, popular on the campus but essentially unknown ...

The Israeli historian Benny Morris did it again. Morris is not only a historian with impressive achievements but also an Israeli and international icon. One year after the publication of his book 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 ...

Literary criticism and the practice of law would seem to have little in common. One embraces its subjective stance, while the other appeals to a fixed code of conduct. Yet there are signs of overlap ...