Marina Manoukian is a writer and artist. She received her Masters in English Philology at Freie Universität Berlin. A Ford truck is loaded with ivory tusks in Essex, Connecticut, 19th century.

For decades, the NCAA vigorously opposed sports gambling. Now, March Madness is one of the most bet-on sporting events. How Americans through the years have approached the thorny questions of ...

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

Charles Carlton, Professor Emeritus of History, North Carolina State University, is the author of "Charles I: the Personal Monarch" (Routledge, 1995). The Oscar-winning film, The King’s Speech ...

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. Hitler and his ...

How did women in 19th-century Europe learn about the birds and the bees?

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.

Abraham Hoffman teaches history at Los Angeles Valley College, and is the author of Unwanted Mexican Americans in the Great Depression: Repatriation Pressures, 1929–1939. Our featured weekly ...