“On or around December 1910, human character changed.”

In the aftermath of Prohibition, America’s top scientists joined forces with members of a new group, called Alcoholics Anonymous, and put their clout behind a campaign to convince the nation that alcoholism was a disease rather than a moral failing...

The gradual shift away from those habits of democracy is one of the things that paved the way for the Trumpocracy that David writes about in his book...

The red Zagat guide to restaurants was a fixture to a generation of New York diners before Google bought the brand and stopped publishing copies of the book...

Alvarez offers an over one-hundred-year history that extends to before the building of a border wall in 1990...

Veri and Liberti the origins of tailgating in the United States, the way that tailgate gender roles changed throughout the 20th century; the interplay between the gender of tailgaters, cooking technologies, and food ways of tailgating; and the future possibilities and current limitations of the tailgating community...

Merritt discusses the intersections of race, class, politics, and slavery in the pre-Civil War South....

Schulten uses maps to explore five centuries of America history, from the voyages of European discovery to the digital age...

Woods and Hahner explore memes as a communication phenomenon with cultural effects with a specific focus on how memes circulated toward the end of the Trump campaign...

What stories should we remember, and which ones are we forced to forget?

Francis-Fallon historicizes how Latinos were imagined into a national electoral constituency...

Between 1901 and World War II, up to half of all U.S.-born Chinese Americans relocated to China in search of better lives due to the discrimination they faced in the United States...

In March 1783, George Washington confronted a meeting of disgruntled Continental Army officers at their encampment at Newburgh, New York...

President Trump has shown little interest in maintaining the traditional form of American leadership of the liberal international order...

Fish discusses the popular and legal meanings of the First Amendment’s speech and religion clauses...

Immigration is one of the most complex issues of our time in the United States...

Grossmann finds that, overall, the size of state governments was not reduced under conservative leadership...

Angelina Callahan talks about the Naval Research Laboratory’s Vanguard Project...

The Versailles Treaty of 1919, celebrates its one-hundred anniversary this year...

"Life" published two photo-essays highlighting Bourke-White’s photographs, but much of her South African work remained unpublished until now...

Friss historicizes the bicycle’s place in New York City’s social, economic, infrastructural and cultural politics...

Pettinicchio offers a history of the political development of disability rights in the United States...

Byrd examines the multitude of responses by African American leaders towards Haiti following the Civil War and going into the 20th Century...

Much has been written about Millennials, but until now their growing presence in the field of architecture has not been examined in depth...

Rossi tells the real life story of his effort to get to the bottom of confidence men in the modern American West...