Oregot: Economic History

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Was Santa White?

Heather Cox Richardson Pundits have sunk their teeth into a fight recently over whether or not Santa was white. After Fox News commentator M...

Heather Cox Richardson After the Civil War, new industries brought Americans not just new products, but also more spending money and l...

[ This post originally appeared on November 20, 2013, on the Faith and History blog, and is reposted here with the permission of the author...

Jonathan Rees When I titled my book Refrigeration Nation , I had to fight the urge to try out any number of bad puns first. Somehow doing th...

Randall Stephens From Life magazine, September 6, 1963. Across the US and around the globe people are marking the 50th anniversary of the ...

Gabriel Loiacono One evening, chatting with friends from church, one asked me what kind of history I focused on. I told him: the history ...

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

Chris Beneke Guided tour at Lowell National Park. Photo courtesy of www.nps.gov/lowe If the experiences of my kids are at all representativ...

Paul Ortiz Robert H. Zieger , distinguished professor of history emeritus at the University of Florida, passed away on March 6, 2013. Profes...