In the spirit of America’s Black History Month, which is celebrated every February, I am continuing my tradition of writing columns that focus on the unique experiences, trials, and triumphs of Black ...

The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...

As the White House ignores congressional mandates, the conflict raises questions at the heart of the nation’s founding ...

We have an income tax as opposed to a tariff in part to deal with the mind of the South in 1913—yet the income tax revenue enabled revenue-destructive tariffs.

After his death, Eli Whitney was described as "one of the most distinguished men who our country as produced." ...

WITH ELON MUSK RUNNING THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH alongside Donald Trump and a sycophantic Republican party controlling Congress, ...

It took the post-Civil War constitutional amendments ... ethnic U.S. literature at Indiana University, South Bend and an associate editor of the American Studies journal, American Quarterly.

left in 1992 amid violence targeting oil workers in another civil war. South Sudan broke away to become its own country in 2011, taking 75% of what had been Sudan’s oil reserves with it.

The first shots of the trade war between the United States and Canada have been fired. Whether it escalates beyond the ...

As white Americans moved further westward into the Nebraska territory after the Civil War, they kept fashioning a new American identity based on deep time. Digging deep into the ground to anchor the ...