The origins and evolution of Halloween illuminate shifting concerns about class, gender, and social change.
October, 2015
Whistling Dixie
Like minstrelsy itself, Daniel Decatur Emmett’s life was influential but regrettable and largely forgotten.
Women’s Page Journalists & Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Women’s page editors helped create an awareness of domestic violence during the 1960s and 70s.
11 Things You Never Knew About Al Capone
Capone’s name is synonymous with Prohibition and mob rule in Chicago. But he was no ordinary thug.
The History Channel and the Myth of American Exceptionalism
From The Winning of the West to Ice Road Truckers.
The Process of Disenfranchisement
The Supreme Court and southern state governments disenfranchised African Americans after the Civil War. It seems we’re on a similar road again.
Saturday Night Massacre
42 years ago tonight was the beginning of the end for the Nixon administration.
Why We Should Still Care About Prosecuting Nazi Criminals
Why punish Holocaust perpetrators seventy years later?
The Problem with Experience: Do Career Politicians Make Good Presidents?
There are no hard and fast rules when it comes to predicting who will make a “great” president.
“It takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose”: The Wounding of Theodore Roosevelt
As his companions argued over where to take Roosevelt for treatment, TR told them, “I am going to drive to the hall and deliver my speech.”