Eli Merritt is a San Francisco-based writer and historian as well as a visiting scholar in the Department of History and the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society at Vanderbilt University. He is ...

The historic and deliberate exclusion of African Americans from economics has undoubtedly hindered the quest to diminish wealth inequality in the United States. And given the historic ...

Michael E. Jirik is Assistant Professor in the Department of Black Studies at the University of Missouri, Columbia. The controversy over abolition at Lane Seminary (Cincinnati, Ohio) in 1834–­1835 was ...

Dr. Rafael Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, and the author of The Jews Should Keep Quiet: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and ...

Vanessa Holden is an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky. Edward E. Baptist is a professor at Cornell University. These incidents are not historically unusual. What’s new is the outcome, ...

Margaret Renkl is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. She works for Humanities Tennessee, an independent affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, as editor of Chapter ...

The expression “self-licking ice cream cone” was first used in 1992 to describe a hidebound bureaucracy at NASA. Yet, as an image, it’s even more apt for America’s military-industrial complex, an ...