Ronald L. Feinman is the author of “Assassinations, Threats, and the American Presidency: From Andrew Jackson to Barack Obama” (Rowman Littlefield Publishers, August 2015). A paperback edition ...

In his 1947 book The World and Africa, W.E.B. Du Bois remarked that a society built on capitalistic exploitation doesn’t see the “blood on the piano keys.”Throughout his lifetime, piano keys ...

“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.

Rethinking the job of history — and the American Historical Association — after the veto of the Gaza “scholasticide” resolution.

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.

“There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish … it was so fragile.” So says the dying Emperor Marcus Aurelius at the ...

The U.S. Justice Department recently hauled Google into court for violating an 1890 federal law designed to forestall the unjust consolidation of economic power.

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.

Edwin Black is the author of "IBM and the Holocaust" and "War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race," from which the following article is drawn.

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.

Blue Morning, by George Bellows, 1909.[National Gallery of Art]Underground communities, in real life, are usually short-term and provisional. For the most part, people live underground much in the ...

The Future of Nostalgia, by Svetlana Boym. This 2001 treatise on the formation of nostalgia and its consequences proved essential throughout the process of writing of A Map of Future Ruins.The ...