Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? As the British political establishment rushes blindly toward the Gadarene ...

In a new book, Smithsonian curator Jon Grinspan examines the history of America’s furious and fractious politics Jon Grinspan - Curator, political history, National Museum of American History ...

A look at the 19th century Ice Age and how air conditioning shaped history. The genesis of the frozen water trade and the clever uses of ice developed to win over a skeptical public. Also, mechanical ...

A bitter election. Social unrest and violence at home and abroad that seem to augur ruinous times. A gaping political divide fed in part by new technology and ways to communicate. Sound familiar?

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will explore firefighting in 19th-century America with the display “Always Ready,” a title drawn from a common motto of the fire companies of the ...

The program for the National American Woman Suffrage Association procession in the capital city. This march occurred before the rift between the more moderate NAWSA and the less conciliatory National ...

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The film follows the challenging and illuminating history of 19th-century women doctors. Filmmaker Valerie Scoon's documentary explores the history of the early women physicians. Filled with grit and ...

This piece, which is adapted from the book Dressing Up: The Women Who Influenced French Fashion (MIT Press), was originally published by the MIT Press Reader and has been republished here with ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich says that for Mormon women living in 19th century Utah, "plural marriages" were empowering in complicated ways. This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry ...

RHINEBECK — One man’s cluttered attic is another man’s “missing link” to a community’s history. That first man is Jeff Strong, 82. He’s the grandson of Jacob H. Strong, who, in 1907, bought the ...

Sarah Gold McBride never set out to write about hair. It’s a research topic that has, well, grown during her extended academic career at Berkeley — offering a window onto the history of popular ...