Those immersed in social media who find it can become less than friendly might learn from 19th century techniques that used memorization to keep conversations more upbeat. Kevin Sheets, a SUNY ...

Fox cottage was the family home of the Fox sisters, who started the Spiritualist movement of the mid-1800s. Credit - Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images Influencers organizing around the ...

In a new book, Smithsonian curator Jon Grinspan examines the history of America’s furious and fractious politics Jon Grinspan - Curator, political history, National Museum of American History ...

Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? As the British political establishment rushes blindly toward the Gadarene ...

A bitter election. Social unrest and violence at home and abroad that seem to augur ruinous times. A gaping political divide fed in part by new technology and ways to communicate. Sound familiar?

When she brushed away the dirt and uncovered not another rock but a shard of smooth, shell-like ceramic, Christine Sears quietly thought to herself, “Oh, my God; oh, my God; oh, my God.” “It was so ...

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The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will explore firefighting in 19th-century America with the display “Always Ready,” a title drawn from a common motto of the fire companies of the ...

The program for the National American Woman Suffrage Association procession in the capital city. This march occurred before the rift between the more moderate NAWSA and the less conciliatory National ...

RHINEBECK — One man’s cluttered attic is another man’s “missing link” to a community’s history. That first man is Jeff Strong, 82. He’s the grandson of Jacob H. Strong, who, in 1907, bought the ...

This piece, which is adapted from the book Dressing Up: The Women Who Influenced French Fashion (MIT Press), was originally published by the MIT Press Reader and has been republished here with ...

Sarah Gold McBride never set out to write about hair. It’s a research topic that has, well, grown during her extended academic career at Berkeley — offering a window onto the history of popular ...