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Henry Steele Commager on America during the Cold War

Randall Stephens The November 24, 1954 episode of Longines Chronoscope featured Henry Steele Commager (video embedded here). That was not ...

Steven Cromack What was life like for those living during the time of Martin Luther? Is Western Civilization on the eve of another Reformati...

Eric B. Schultz Ask an American historian to define the Great Migration and you’ll hear one of several answers. Most will describe the mo...

Heather Cox Richardson I have heard talk of the exportation of modern American art during the Cold War as a means of proselytiz...

Joseph L. Yannielli This is cross-posted from the blog Digital Histories at Yale . Nineteenth-century Americans viewed themselves through a...

Hidetaka Hirota A detail of Carol M. Highsmith's aerial view of the Ellis Island immigration station. Courtesy of the Library of Congres...