A scholar of international law on the implications of the U.S. arrest of President Nicolás Maduro.

Jennifer Banning Tomás is professor of history at Piedmont Virginia Community College. In September 1972, before Richard Nixon’s reelection, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American ...

Philip Kadish is a professor of American Studies at Pace University in New York City. The author of The Great White Hoax, he lives in New York City. James A. Garfield, c. 1880. Photograph by Napoleon ...

James A.S. Sunderland is a Research Fellow at the Woolf Institute in Cambridge and a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge. His DPhil, from Merton College, Oxford, ...

Soldiers sing at the end of the day in Vietnam, January 1968. [National Archives] While not entirely wrong, the Hollywood version is too loud. It drowns out a history that was more complicated — and ...

On a chilly night in the spring of 1934, a 27-year old lawyer and future member of Congress named Robert F. Jones took a ride out to Henry Tapscott’s farm a few miles east of Lima, Ohio. Surrounded by ...

Ronald L. Feinman is the author of Assassinations, Threats, and the American Presidency (Rowman Littlefield Publishers, 2015, Paperback Edition 2017). As the presidential campaign of 2024 becomes the ...

This is a guest post by David Austin Walsh, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Virginia, soon-to-be postdoctoral fellow at Yale, and friend of The Racket. His book, Taking America Back: ...

The accounts in this excerpt are part of Gwangju Uprising: The Rebellion for Democracy in South Korea, Recorded by Hwang Sok-yong, Lee Jae-eui, and Jeon Yong-ho, Compiled by the Gwangju ...

David Carlin works on Climate Change for the UN Environment Program’s Finance Initiative (UNEP-FI). He leads a global project to help banks understand and assess the risks and opportunities brought ...

Robert Brent Toplin was professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington and Denison University and taught courses after retirement at the University of Virginia. He has published ...

The fight over the Equal Rights Amendment is often framed as a classic fight between liberals and conservatives with liberals supporting the amendment to ensure gender equality and conservatives ...