Pence and Sessions are but two prominent Americans in and out of politics today who continue refueling a centuries-old controversy over the role of religion in American life.

“We need to get the bastards out of here.” It’s a statement that could have been uttered by many American presidents about a wide array of groups through history.

Toward the end of the 19th century, as job opportunities expanded for women and people of color, it became harder to find a cook who was willing to work long and hard hours for limited wages.

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Let’s begin with a quick summary: President Lyndon B. Johnson inherited the presidency in November, 1963 after the terrible events in Dallas.

Is it Muslim or Moslem?When Baby Boomers were children it was Moslem. The American Heritage Dictionary (1992) noted,"Moslem is the form predominantly preferred in journalism and popular usage ...

Nineteenth-century British depiction of a cholera outbreak. Credit: University of St. Andrews. Because it appeared in the midst of the ongoing debate over the workings of the Affordable Care Act ...

The Northeast caught fire this fall, in a way that recalls its past. History has some lessons about how to manage the region’s fire seasons to come.

On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered what he considered to be “a few appropriate remarks” at the dedication of a cemetery at the Gettysburg battlefield in Pennsylvania to a crowd of ...

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Daniel Mallia is an HNN and an undergraduate at Fordham University. "Was Hitler Jewish?" is a frequently asked question but it is one that requires clarification to answer correctly. In essence ...

A few years ago, while researching trans life in the 1930s for my new book The Other Olympians, I stumbled across the headline “Sex Repeal!Science Solves the Riddle of Man-Women Wonders.” The ...