In Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash (1992), a novel that channeled perfectly the libertarian imagination of the post–Cold War moment, the territory once known as the United States has been ...

Eran Zelnik teaches history at Chico State University in California. His book American Laughter, American Fury: Humor and the Making of a White Man's Democracy, 1750-1850, came out earlier this ...

Eric Eisner is a PhD student in the Johns Hopkins History Department. David B. Froomkin is an assistant professor of law at the University of Houston Law Center. The reigning mythology of the ...

How the younger brother of the famous general set out to destroy the scourge of monopoly power.

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.

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 ...

A UC Berkeley student picket supports a strike protesting demonstrators’ arrests, 1964. Photograph by Don Kechely. [Online Archive of California] For over a century, U.S. politicians have made ...

Winner of two Bancroft Prizes for best book in American history, Linda Gordon is the author of Seven Social Movements That Changed America, The Second Coming of the KKK, and a biography of ...

Thomas Doherty is Professor of American Studies at Brandeis University. He specializes in the history of film. His latest book is Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code ...