History & Culture

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

Introduction: More Than a Hairpiece In the annals of American true crime, few cases have captivated and polarized the public...

Introduction: More Than a Hairpiece — The Toupee as a Microcosm of the Menendez Tragedy In the pantheon of American...

Introduction: The Perfect Kiss, The Perfect Storm On the night of May 16, 2021, inside the Hollywood Palladium, the alchemy...

Beyond the Man of Gold: My Journey to Understand the Real Mansa Musa As a historian, I’ve spent years wrestling...

Introduction: The End of an Era, The Survival of a Cousin The close of the Pleistocene epoch, roughly 12,000 years...

Part I: The Ideological Collision: American Conservatism and the Roosevelt Revolution The profound disagreement many conservatives held with the economic...

As a literary and film analyst, I’ve learned that the most potent stories are the ones that linger, the ones...

Introduction: The Man Who Wasn't There In the pantheon of modern television comedies, Parks and Recreation holds a cherished place...

Part I: The Unraveling - My Quest to Understand a Simple Pair of Pants Introduction: The Frustrating Question It began,...