On M.L.K. Day, the death of Renee Good calls to mind another woman who died protesting for the rights of others.

Mr. Eisele is the editor of The Hill. George F. Kennan, the chief architect of the containment and deterrence policies that shaped America foreign policy during the Cold War, said Sunday that Congress ...

The fight over the Equal Rights Amendment is often framed as a classic fight between liberals and conservatives with liberals supporting the amendment to ensure gender equality and conservatives ...

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 ...

Mr. Bamford, a former investigative reporter for ABC News, is the author of The Puzzle Palace and Body of Secrets. Early in the morning of Thursday June 8, 1967 the first rays of sun spilled softly ...

Mr. Sternstein is Professor Emeritus of History, Brooklyn College, CUNY, and co-editor of The Encyclopedia of American Biography. Much of the commentary about the latest plagiarism scandal involving ...

Title page of the 1828 first edition of the American Dictionary of the English Language featuring an engraving of Webster - By Cullen328 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0 His main aim, however, was practical.

Mr. Pappe is a senior lecturer in the political science department at Haifa University. In March the New Republic published Benny Morris's harsh review of Illan Pappe's new book, A History of Modern ...

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 ...

On a chilly night in the spring of 1934, a 27-year old lawyer and future member of Congress named Robert F. Jones took a ride out to Henry Tapscott’s farm a few miles east of Lima, Ohio. Surrounded by ...

Karen Grigsby Bates offers an appreciation of late R&B singer and philanthropist Lou Rawls. The singer sold more than 40 million albums and earned three Grammys in his long career, and founded a ...

Ronald L. Feinman is the author of Assassinations, Threats, and the American Presidency (Rowman Littlefield Publishers, 2015, Paperback Edition 2017). As the presidential campaign of 2024 becomes the ...