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Women Have Fought to Legalize Reproductive Rights for Nearly Two Centuries

by Lauren MacIvor Thompson

The efforts of the second-wave feminist movement transformed older ideas of voluntary motherhood, which asserted that women both didn’t have to have sex or be pregnant, into the more radical notion that women could enjoy sex without fear of becoming pregnant.  

Here Comes the D-Day Myth Again

by Kevin Kennedy

The successful Allied landings in Normandy accelerated Germany’s defeat, but they didn’t bring it about.

Why 2019 Marks the Beginning of the Next Cycle of American History

by Ronald L. Feinman

America has had four major crisis turning points, each 74 years apart, from the time of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 to today.

How Should Historians Respond to David Garrow's Article on Martin Luther King, Jr.?

by Andrea S. Johnson

How can and should historians address the history of gender and sexuality when it intersects with the histories of the civil rights movement, gender, American religion, and the development of the surveillance state?

Donald Trump, the Humanities, and the Decline of American Values

by Walter G. Moss

We overvalue such things as making money, “getting ahead,” glitz, and celebrity status and undervalue what the humanities and arts emphasize—beauty, truth, and goodness.  

D-Day 75 Years Later and the Quest for Peace

by William Lambers

American and allied soldiers lost their lives on D-Day so that others may live free. The best way to honor D-Day veteran’s sacrifice is to work for that elusive, but achievable eternal world peace. 

A Brief History of the Theory Trump and Barr Use to Resist Congressional Oversight

by Donald J. Fraser

Unitary executive theory from Alexander Hamilton to Donald J. Trump. 

The Occupation of The Atlantic Mind

by Walter L. Hixson

The Atlantic magainze is distinguished by the intensity of its Zionist distortions of the past and present of the Palestine conflict.

What Should Historians Do About the Mueller Report?

by Bruce W. Dearstyne

We need to be more emphatic in asserting history's role in bringing clarity to complex public issues. 

Clarence Thomas is Wrong: It’s Restrictions on Abortion that Echo America’s Eugenics Past

by Molly Ladd-Taylor and Johanna Schoen

The animating belief of eugenics—the state should control the reproduction of poor people, immigrants, and women of color—is central to current abortion politics.

The Expansion of Presidential Power Since 1973

by Ronald L. Feinman

Arthur Schlesinger Jr’s Imperial Presidency is now just the prelude to a far greater constitutional crisis that is possibly transforming the Presidency and destroying the separation of powers and checks and balances created by the Founding Fathers in 1787.

Leadership and Mimicry: What Plutarch knew about Elizabeth Holmes

by Jeffrey Beneker

In business and in politics, philosophers and reporters tell us that no one can hide deficiencies in character forever.

Yes, you should have free speech on Facebook.

by Andrew Joseph Pegoda

When blocking content or banning users, Facebook uses its ubiquitousness, power, wealth, and monopoly—made possible by neoliberal transferences of power from “real” governments to private businesses which function as unelected and unaccountable de facto governments—to silence.

How About a Peace Race Instead of an Arms Race?

by Lawrence Wittner

On September 25, 1961, dismayed by the Soviet Union’s recent revival of nuclear weapons testing, John F. Kennedy used the occasion of his address to the United Nations to challenge the Russians “not to an arms race, but to a peace race.” 

What the Fugitive Slave Law Can Teach Us About Anti-Abortion Legislation

by Ed Simon

As the Fugitive Slave Act was motivated by an inhuman racism, so are these new laws mandating forced pregnancy defined by hideous misogyny.

A Day to Remember: Memorial Day 2019

by Vaughn Davis Bornet

For some among us, Patriotism sometimes seems just “old hat.”  Not for everybody.  

On Toad-Eating, Tyranny, and Trump

by Frank Palmeri

What a writer in 19th-century England can teach us about Republicans, the press, and Trump. 

All the President’s Humility: What We Can Learn From Young George Washington

by Peter Stark

It took Washington many years to metamorphose from self-centered, impetuous young man burning with ambition to gain personal “honor” into a steady, selfless, seemingly unflappable leader.

From 37 to 79: Age and Presidential Campaigns

by Ron Faucheux

When Buttigieg was born, Biden had already served nine years in the U.S. Senate. When Sanders was born, Franklin Roosevelt was president.

What Trump Could Learn About Immigration from Teddy Roosevelt

by Greg Bailey

The history of the Gentlemen’s Agreement of 1907.