How a dispute between American and Panamanian high school students over which country’s flag to fly escalated into days of violence.

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. 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is a guest post by David Austin Walsh, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Virginia, soon-to-be postdoctoral fellow at Yale, and friend of The Racket. His book, Taking America Back: ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...