A UC Berkeley student picket supports a strike protesting demonstrators’ arrests, 1964. Photograph by Don Kechely. [Online Archive of California] For over a century, U.S. politicians have made ...

Garrett Epps is a contributing writer at The Atlantic. He teaches constitutional law and creative writing for law students at the University of Baltimore. His latest book is American Justice 2014 ...

Mr. Castagnera is a university attorney and author of Al Qaeda Goes to College (Praeger, 2009). All the attention to the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock Festival makes me feel like it was the ...

[Gerard W. Gawalt is the manuscript specialist for early American history in the Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.] Ruthless, unconventional foes are not new to the United States of America.

Twenty-eight years ago this month, President Reagan introduced the world to the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) saying that he was challenging the scientists “who gave us nuclear weapons ...

Historian Peter A. Lillback, Ph.D., is president of The Providence Forum, president of Westminster Theological Seminary, and senior pastor at Proclamation Presbyterian Church in Bryn Mawr ...

Dr. Wittner is Professor of History at the State University of New York/Albany. His latest book, co-edited with Glen H. Stassen, is Peace Action: Past, Present, and Future (Paradigm Publishers).

Jimmy Carter is known for his defense of human rights worldwide. But in 1979, he threatened to deport thousands of Iranian ...

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.

On December 8, 1876, Bristol police arrested the bookseller Henry Cook for selling the American birth control booklet Fruits of Philosophy. (Victorian readers knew the latter noun was a byword for ...

Ms. Wills is a writer, researcher, and genealogist, and author of the book, Notes and Documents of Free Persons of Color: Colonial Virginia, 1650-1850 (March 2003). Although the newest movie about ...