After I graduated from college in 1987, I took a job at East Hill Farm and School, an alternative school located on a mountain top farm in southern Vermont.

The past really is a foreign country, as historian Jonathan Ablard finds when piecing together the turbulent history of his ancestors in the West and Midwest.

The question, Milanich argues, is not “Who is the father?” but rather, “Who do we want him to be?”

With a generator powering the house, my family reluctantly went through belongings at my sister’s home. While going […]

Visual media have the advantage of providing quick comfort; if you need a change of mood or just […]

Lola Lola, played by Marlene Dietrich in the 1930 film The Blue Angel (Der blaue Engel), regales the […]

Historians have always had a tough time writing about media. The danger of technological determinism tends to loom […]