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.

Abraham Hoffman teaches history at Los Angeles Valley College, and is the author of Unwanted Mexican Americans in the Great Depression: Repatriation Pressures, 1929–1939. Our featured weekly ...

A UC Berkeley student picket supports a strike protesting demonstrators’ arrests, 1964. Photograph by Don Kechely. [Online Archive of California] For over a century, U.S. politicians have made ...

Winner of two Bancroft Prizes for best book in American history, Linda Gordon is the author of Seven Social Movements That Changed America, The Second Coming of the KKK, and a biography of ...

Garrett Epps is a contributing writer at The Atlantic. He teaches constitutional law and creative writing for law students at the University of Baltimore. His latest book is American Justice 2014 ...

Jimmy Carter is known for his defense of human rights worldwide. But in 1979, he threatened to deport thousands of Iranian ...

Will Teague is an instructor in the Department of History at the University of Arkansas. Students demonstrating against the Shah of Iran, Washington, DC, 1979. Photograph by Marion S. Trikosko.

On December 8, 1876, Bristol police arrested the bookseller Henry Cook for selling the American birth control booklet Fruits of Philosophy. (Victorian readers knew the latter noun was a byword for ...