Back in the days when only aristocrats and spiritual leaders could hold political and cultural authority, there was no pride in claiming to be self-made. Instead, an assertion of self-made success was ...

Asheesh Kapur Siddique is an assistant professor of history at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and the author of The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern ...

Will Teague is an instructor in the Department of History at the University of Arkansas. Students demonstrating against the Shah of Iran, Washington, DC, 1979. Photograph by Marion S. Trikosko.

Barbara Weinstein is professor of Latin American History at NYU. In 2007, she served as president of the American Historical Association. Her books include The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850-1920, and The ...

Timothy Messer-Kruse is author of Patriots’ Dilemma: White Abolitionism and Black Banishment in the Founding of the United States of America. Study For Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences, or The ...

Joshua Clark Davis is a historian at the University of Baltimore currently writing Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back for ...

Steve Hochstadt is emeritus professor of history at Illinois College, after teaching there 2006-2016, and at Bates College 1979-2006. His first book, Mobility and Modernity: Migration in Germany ...

Elena Conis is a historian of medicine at Berkeley and the author of Vaccine Nation (Chicago, 2015) and the forthcoming book How to Sell a Poison (Bold Type, 2022). Many Americans have run out of ...

Few other societies have revelled in and revered the deliberate and purposeful killing of men and women as much as the Romans. Emma Southon, A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum It’s no ...

Zara Anishanslin is an associate professor of history and art history at the University of Delaware, a postdoctoral fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of ...

A painting depicting the construction of a fort at Jamestown, close to Fort Comfort, from National Park Service Commemorating the 400th anniversary of what the English colonizer John Rolfe described ...

Harlow Giles Unger is author of 27 books, including a dozen biographies of the Founding Fathers. His latest book is Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for American Independence, published by Hachette.