Modern History

Introduction: The Unscheduled Last Ride The air in Jackson, New Jersey, on Sunday, November 10, 2024, was thick with more...

Introduction For seven seasons, Officer Kono Kalakaua was an indispensable pillar of the Hawaii Five-0 reboot. Portrayed by Grace Park,...

Introduction: From Shrine of Democracy to Contested Landscape For millions, the first glimpse of Mount Rushmore, whether on a postcard...

Part I: The Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi Section 1: The Event of January 30, 1948 The assassination of Mohandas Karamchand...

Introduction: An Unmistakable Absence, An Inevitable Recast In the ninth episode of its seventh season, the Starz historical drama Outlander...

Introduction: The Day the Music Died On March 31, 1995, a palpable wave of shock and disbelief rippled out from...

The assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, was a seminal trauma in the American psyche. It...

Introduction In the autumn of 1863, the United States was a nation staggering under the weight of its own internal...

Adrift in a Sea of Contradictions: My Struggle with the Lincoln Myth For years, as a historical analyst, I was...

Introduction: The Paradox of America's First Family of Television For millions of television viewers in the 1950s, Lucy and Ricky...