As “Mad Men” depicts, history reshapes people’s lives, perspectives, and interactions, often without them fully realizing that things have changed.

Harlow Giles Unger is author of 27 books, including a dozen biographies of the Founding Fathers. His latest book is Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for American Independence, published by Hachette.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma, the daughter of a tenant farmer and part-Indian mother. She has been active in the international Indigenous movement for more than four decades and is ...

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.

Drowning rates were abysmally high in early 20th-century America, with as many as ten thousand adults and children meeting watery graves each year. Beaches and swimming holes were unguarded, and those ...

Ludovic Rembert has had a career as a network security engineer working in both industry and academia, and currently writes on technology issues. The 20th-century futurists were susceptible to making ...

Donne Levy is a retired community college history instructor. In the mid-1970s, the religious right became heavily involved in electoral politics and a driving force within the Republican Party. By ...

Mr. Hughes is the Nixon tapes editor for the Presidential Recordings Program at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. It wasn’t the crime, but it wasn’t the cover-up, either. Something more ...

Mr. Cox, Ph.D., is Associate Director of the Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin. When it comes to commentary about the office of vice president of the United States, no ...

Mr. Stern taught African American history at the college level for a decade before becoming historian at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum (1977–1999)—where he designed the museum’s first civil ...

Donald Yacovone is an Associate at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Studies, Harvard University and an Athenæum member. Oompa-Loompa illustration ...

Perhaps the greatest side plot in Season 3 of Netflix’s Bridgerton involves the sexual education of the Featherington sisters. Overbearing mama Lady Portia Featherington (Polly Walker) is desperate ...