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 ...

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 ...

The event that triggered the formation of the Dixiecrat Party in 1948 was the hotly-fought passage of a ground-breaking plank calling upon Congress to approve a civil rights act to assure blacks ...

Barbara Weinstein is professor of Latin American History at NYU. In 2007, she served as president of the American Historical Association. Her books include The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850-1920, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...