An article from the April 1953 issue of Good Housekeeping. [Proquest] Polio, short for poliomyelitis, infects the intestinal tract. It can then travel to the brain stem, where it halts lung ...

If a historian of the United States entered the public square in the 1960s or 1970s, it was often for reason of radical commitments. Eugene Genovese became a lightning rod after offering his ...

On the test case that provoked the courts to decide whether the federal government had jurisdiction to exercise American criminal law over Native peoples on Native lands. by Keith Richotte Jr ...

Andrew Donnelly is an assistant professor of English at the University of Memphis, where he teaches courses on literary and cultural history. His book, Confederate Sympathies: Same-Sex Romance ...

Martin E. Marty, in Sightings, the newsletter of the Martin Marty Center at the University of Chicago Divinity School (5-2-05): In last week's U.S. News & World Report, Michael Barone reassured ...

[Jeff Shear is the author of Keys to the Kingdom, an investigation into a weapons deal with Japan, published by Doubleday in 1994. His writing and reporting have appeared in The New York Times ...

Bill Moyers, in a speech at the National Conference on Media Reform in St. Louis, Missouri (5-15-05): The story I've come to share with you goes to the core of our belief that the quality of ...

Mr. Uviller and Mr. Merkel are co-authors of The Militia and the Right to Arms, or, How the Second Amendment Fell Silent (Duke University Press). There is, perhaps, a certain dullness in taking ...

Mr. Chapman is an instructor of history and social science at Lincoln Trail College in Robinson, Illinois. Ronald Wilson Reagan is no longer this side of eternity; his battles are over. Like the ...

Lori Clune is a lecturer in history at CSU Fresno and a PhD candidate at UC Davis. Her dissertation is entitled "Executing the Rosenbergs: A Transnational History." I met Stephen Ambrose when I ...