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Prisoners at Sachsenhausen concentration camp wear triangle badges indicating the nature of their offenses against Nazi social code (pink would indicate homosexuality). National Archives and Records Administration, 1938. The recent rise of far right polit

Cody Keenan (Photo by Melanie Dunea) Other than being able to string a sentence together, empathy is the most important quality in a speechwriter. The ability or at least the attempt to understand your audience, to walk in their shoes for a little while,

Novelist Anna Maria Porter, engraving The Ladies' Pocket Magazine (1824) This image is available from the New York Public Library's Digital Library under the digital ID 1556053: digitalgallery.nypl.org digitalcollections.nypl.org I have been a local histo

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) points to a painting commissioned by Harlan Crow depicting a meeting at Crow's vacation retreat including Federalist Society head Leonard Leo (2nd from left), Justice Clarence Thomas (2nd from right) and Crow (far right)

Determined to Remember: Harriet Jacobs and Slavery's Descendants by Koritha Mitchell Public history sites have the potential to spark intellectual engagement because when they make embodied connections between people and the sites they visit-even when tho

Ronald L. Feinman is the author of Assassinations, Threats, and the American Presidency (Rowman Littlefield Publishers, 2015, Paperback Edition 2017). As the presidential campaign of 2024 becomes the center of public attention, former president Donald Tru

Striding masterfully through St. George's Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace, Vlad the Conqueror pondered his role as a Man of Destiny. "It's not easy to measure up to the past leaders of Russia," he brooded. "Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great slaughter

Leonard Raven-Hill, "For Auld Lang Syne" from Punch, 1912 And they're off. With just a year and a half to go, Ron DeSantis has finally thrown his hat into the ring. Now the race for the GOP nomination truly begins. Nikki Haley, Asa Hutchinson, and a varie

James Peale, "The Artist and His Family," 1795 Historians have spent decades investigating whether the American Revolution benefited women or provoked changes in women's status. By and large, white women's traditional political rights and legal status rem

Photo from records of LaFollette Committee, National Archives and Records Administration In July 1943, former Hollywood screenwriter Ayn Rand was still tracking responses, critical and commercial, to her first major novel, The Fountainhead. It had been pu