Asheesh Kapur Siddique is an assistant professor of history at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and the author of The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern ...

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.

Barbara Weinstein is professor of Latin American History at NYU. In 2007, she served as president of the American Historical Association. Her books include The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850-1920, and The ...

Santiago Flórez is a bilingual Colombian journalist, educator, illustrator, and anthropologist based in New York City. Currently, he works at Science Friday. He has an MA in bilingual journalism from ...

Stephen Pyne is an emeritus professor at Arizona State University. His most recent book is Five Suns: A Fire History of Mexico. Photo of 1908 fire in New Hampshire. The 1908 fires ranged along the U.S ...

My new book, A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging centers on the story of the 2020 fire that destroyed the largest refugee camp in Europe on the Greek island of Lesvos, and the six young ...

Chris Monday is associate professor of Russian History at Dongseo University, South Korea. In 1949, Mikhail Putin visits a worker club at the Red Vyborzhets factory in Leningrad with his former ...

In 1905 Jane Stanford, the co-founder of Leland Stanford Jr. University, died of strychnine poisoning at the hands of a “person or persons unknown.” Initially, the newspapers professed shock at the ...

Donne Levy is a retired community college history instructor. In the mid-1970s, the religious right became heavily involved in electoral politics and a driving force within the Republican Party. By ...

On September 2, 1945, V-J Day, Japanese officials aboard the USS Missouri formally surrendered to the United States, ending the Second World War. Most Americans then and now believe that it was ...

Samuel Zipp is Associate Professor of American Studies and Director of the Urban Studies program at Brown University, and author of The Idealist: Wendell Willkie’s Wartime Quest to Build One World ...

After nearly four years of the Trump administration, U.S. voters have a pretty good idea of the policies that the President and his Republican allies champion when it comes to America’s dealings with ...