Excellent news reported in the Wall Street Journal for those opposed to mass incarceration in the United States.  Since 2009, prison popula...

One hundred years ago, Europe plunged into mass self-immolation in the service of dim and corrupt monarchs. After a short skirmish to dete...

Kimberly Jade Norwood Up on CNN this morning is a compelling post " This Doesn't Happen to White People " by Kimberly Jade...

I recently reviewed many U.S. history books and texts, from a variety of high profile publishers. Amazingly little mention is made of S...

Emperor Franz Joseph of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire haplessly occupied the Hapsburg throne from 1848 to 1916, one of the longest reigns ...

Current prevailing wisdom is that Germany bears most of the  responsibility for World War I  due in no small part to the so-called "bla...

Historians furiously debate  the causes and blame  for World War I.  Recent books  continue to  fuel  the arguments. But all generally agr...

Call for Panel and Paper Proposals The New Color Lines: What Will It Mean to Be an American? The 19 th Mid-Atlantic People of Color L...

Denmark has long dominated world happiness rankings. Last fall The Earth Institute ranked Denmark first in happiness based upon surveys a...

Donald Sterling, 1989 At this point, unless you've been hiding under a rock for the past week, we all have been exposed to L.A. Clip...

     In the business section of today's New York Times , there is an article about the G.M. exhibits at this past weekend's New York...