Olivia Paschal is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Virginia, and a journalist and writer. Resources of the Soil (Mural Study, Ukiah, California Post Office), by Ben Cunningham, c.

Translating the first book printed in English was quite stressful, as William Caxton made clear in his profoundly neurotic introduction to the 1473 edition of The Recuyell of the Historyes of ...

One day in the fall of 1841, the Black abolitionist William Johnson was walking down the street in Philadelphia when a friend thrust a “Human Rights Circular” into his hands. The printed ...

Mr. Kelly, who holds a graduate degree in European history, is the author most recently of The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, The Most Devastating Plague of All Time ...

Fran Shor is a professor in the Interdisciplinary Studies Program at Wayne State University. In the past few months there have been a rash of media reports on the Carlyle Group, a private equity ...

Shelomo Alfassa is an author, historian and internationally known advocate for Sephardic Jewry. He has successfully worked with the U.S. Congress to bring about greater representation for ...

Aaron Leonard is a freelance journalist. His columns and interviews span the gamut from geopolitics to economics to religion. He is a regular contributor to the History New Network and other ...

Mr. Fowler, the Director of the Massachustts Historical Society, is the author of Empires at War: the French and Indian War and the Struggle for North America 1754-1763 (2004). A little more than ...