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 ...

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

Nicholas Turse, writing in www.tomdispatch.com, a weblog of the Nation Institute (April 2004): Since 1961, thanks to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, we've all been cognizant of the"unwarranted ...

Mr. Wagner, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of History, Department of Social Science, Missouri Southern State College. The Taft-Hartley Act was a major revision of the National Labor Relations Act ...

Mr. Schweikart is Professor of History, University of Dayton. For a half a century, the interpretation of America's story has drifted steadily leftward, sometimes almost imperceptibly and ...

Ms. Klinghoffer is senior associate scholar at the Political Science department at Rutgers University, Camden, and the author of Vietnam, Jews and the Middle East. She is also an HNN blogger.