Fran Shor is Emeritus Professor of History at Wayne State University. The anguished cries of mothers being separated from their children on the U.S. Southwest border recalls earlier travesties visited ...

Contemporary data indicate that, on average across a wide range of schools, A’s represent 43% of all letter grades, an increase of 28 percentage points since 1960 and 12 percentage points since 1988.

Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer are professors of history at Princeton University. For decades, Watergate has served as the benchmark against which all other presidential scandals are measured. One ...

David Frum is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic. In 2001 and 2002, he was a speechwriter for President George W. Bush. It was only ...

Noah Shusterman is an Associate Professor of History at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Armed Citizens: From Ancient Rome to the Second Amendment. The Boston Massacre, after ...

Eli Merritt is a San Francisco-based writer and historian as well as a visiting scholar in the Department of History and the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society at Vanderbilt University. He is ...

Vanessa Holden is an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky. Edward E. Baptist is a professor at Cornell University. These incidents are not historically unusual. What’s new is the outcome, ...