1988 was a pivotal year in how “white liberals” are perceived by their fellow Americans. Ever since the Supreme Court gave itself the power of judicial review in 1803, its role in the federal ...

Literary criticism and the practice of law would seem to have little in common. One embraces its subjective stance, while the other appeals to a fixed code of conduct. Yet there are signs of overlap ...

At one time, more than 4 billion American chestnut trees spread from southern Canada all the way to Mississippi and Alabama. While it was rarely the dominant tree in the forests, this giant of the ...

In the late 1870s, the 70-year-old newspaper editor Henry Boernstein sat down to write about German immigrants’ efforts to shape the United States into a less brutal, more enlightened republic in the ...

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Madeline Grimm is a writer and editor based in New York City. She has written for outlets including Lapham’s Quarterly, The Drift, and the Cleveland Review of Books. The Muse: History, by Camille ...

History News Network puts current events into historical perspective. Subscribe to our newsletter for new perspectives on the ways history continues to resonate in the present. Explore our archive of ...

Those intrigued by the possibilities of AI in classrooms often rope history into their argument. Advocates for AI’s use in educational settings suggest that it should be used, like the calculator, to ...

We know how to euthanize beloved pets — veterinarians do it every day. And we know how physician-assisted suicide works — it is legal in several states. If drugs can be used to humanely end life in ...

One of the challenging debates, for economists and policymakers as much as historians, is about how to define efficiency. One of its most standard applications to policy and law is cost-benefit ...

The story of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775, has united generations of Americans around deeply enshrined democratic commitments that helped Americans define their ...