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 ...

An article from the April 1953 issue of Good Housekeeping. [Proquest] Polio, short for poliomyelitis, infects the intestinal tract. It can then travel to the brain stem, where it halts lung function ...

If a historian of the United States entered the public square in the 1960s or 1970s, it was often for reason of radical commitments. Eugene Genovese became a lightning rod after offering his “welcome” ...

The beliefs have been shaped by legal code, America's history of imperialism and the prevailing culture, said historian Ellen Wu, the author of "The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins ...

Mr. MacLeod is an Associate Professor of History, University of Evansville, Indiana. Several weeks ago I visited with my family the Soldiers' Memorial Museum in the heart of downtown St Louis. It is a ...

Mr. Fleming is the author of more than forty books including, most recently, The New Dealer's War. He is a member of the board of directors of History News Network. Some pundit once remarked that for ...

Andrew Donnelly is an assistant professor of English at the University of Memphis, where he teaches courses on literary and cultural history. His book, Confederate Sympathies: Same-Sex Romance, ...

Mr. Bensel, Professor of Government, Cornell University, is the author of Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859-1877 (Cambridge University Press, 1991) and The ...

Mr. Patterson is the Bradlee Professor of Government & the Press at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. The article is derived from his recently published book, The Vanishing ...

According to John Nance Garner, Franklin D. Roosevelt's first vice president, the vice-presidency “isn't worth a bucket of warm [spit].” (He actually used a ruder word than spit, but it was ...

Mr. DiMeo is a public radio producer living in Los Angeles. He reports regularly for programs like All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Marketplace. He recently launched “the memory palace,” a ...